Example sentences of "and [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 2 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |
| 3 | It is rolled into a pellet and fastened to the end of the needle and lit so that it smokes . |
| 4 | It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial . |
| 5 | ( SCENE : A huge golden tub , studded with emeralds and filled to the brim with the tears of baby narwhals . |
| 6 | For its part , the Conservative Party , under the intellectual leadership of R. A. Butler , came to terms with the changes wrought by Labour from 1945–51 and adjusted to the new mood in the country so that it grudged towards state intervention in support of some kind of equality . |
| 7 | As soon as she had recovered from the months of Rhoda 's illness , and come to terms with her death , and adjusted to the sudden change in her circumstances , she would do something about it . |
| 8 | Although a licensing board may resolve to call for the production of plans under the subsection in respect of a number of existing licences , a separate requirement must be recorded and intimated to the licence holder in respect of each licence separately . |
| 9 | Although the licensing board may resolve to call for the production of plans under this section in respect of a number of existing licences , a separate requirement must be recorded , and intimated to the licence-holder , in respect of each licence separately . |
| 10 | The baby clawed to be free of his mother and pressed to the brooches that studded Alexandra 's bosom and Robert , commonly bright-eyed with aggression , stood scarlet and speechless in a stupor of admiration and wonder . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 12 | For a period of six months in British Airways all personnel and training staff were taken away from their normal duties and assigned to the task of helping with the process of change . |
| 13 | For each of these problems a problem report will be entered into the computer system and assigned to the Computer Group Manager . |
| 14 | The average national property value is calculated and assigned to the appropriate band , i.e. band D in this case . |
| 15 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 16 | The two birds had now broken loose from each other and withdrawn to the vicinity of their respective cages . |
| 17 | Rocktron have noted this and vaulted to the rescue by producing the rather obscurely titled Bass mAxe . |
| 18 | In places the accumulated plaster of years , too heavy to bear its own weight , had cracked and crumbled , and fallen to the ground before her brush like broken china . |
| 19 | The matter was discussed and referred to the council 's working party for investigation . |
| 20 | According to Pliny , the name was derived from bos ( cow ) , and referred to the supposition that boas slithered between farms , sucking whole herds of cattle dry before eating them . |
| 21 | They protested their innocence , and referred to the fact that no charges had been brought against them . |
| 22 | ( see p 110 ) we reported that The Companies ( Single Member Private Limited Companies ) Regulations 1992 had come into force , and referred to the various aspects of company and insolvency law that had been changed to accommodate the single-member company . |
| 23 | Paisley and I issued a joint statement spelling out that the authorities had made inaccurate claims about the shooting and referred to the information in the forensic report . |
| 24 | He said that students should develop ‘ morally ’ as well as intellectually and referred to the historic legacy of Beida . |
| 25 | In May 1991 the government outlined a new set of proposals on human rights and referred to the need ‘ to eliminate every form of excess by the security forces in fulfilment of their duties , and to punish those responsible . ’ |
| 26 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 27 | Muccio handed Rhee an American note containing advice on handling inflation and referred to the unhappy precedent of China : |
| 28 | and referred to the same phenomenon in his introduction to Pascal 's Pens , in which he declared that certain kinds of ill health may favour not only " religious illumination " but also " artistic and literary composition " . |
| 29 | The court found that the authority was an emanation of the state and referred to the European Court of Justice the questions of whether the dismissal of the applicant after reaching normal retirement age for a woman constituted discrimination prohibited by Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) and whether the applicant could rely on the directive in national courts notwithstanding any inconsistency between it and s. 6(4) of the Act of 1975 . |
| 30 | The petition , which was presented both to the king and the College of Physicians and referred to the archbishop of Canterbury , alleged that Chamberlen had pecuniary interests in keeping midwives ignorant so that he could take on their difficult cases . |