Example sentences of "and [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to crown it all , ‘ What a charming companion you have been , ’ Ven commented across the table as he waited for the waiter to bring him their bill . |
| 2 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 3 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 4 | Indeed , this was a very rare opportunity for all delegates and visitors , as I said , to meet to listen yes , and to hear it first hand about the life and witness of more than three hundred member churches throughout the world in a hundred countries ! |
| 5 | It now leaves me with only the very pleasant duty to declare the congress open and to wish it great success . |
| 6 | Lévi-Strauss ' objections to Sartre 's theory of history on the grounds of its ethnocentrism was certainly to the point , demonstrating that one lesson of Sartre 's Herculean attempt to make history truth , and to give it one meaning , was the relation of such history to Western cultural imperialism . |
| 7 | right , and to put it all back together to have some sort of record |
| 8 | A researcher reports a particular result , and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs . |
| 9 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 10 | He told Sir Bryan to get the Chief Constable on the line immediately and to keep it open in the meantime . |
| 11 | Encouragement and real results are the essential ingredients required to nurture adequate supplies of willpower and to keep it growing . |
| 12 | Plato was surely mistaken to think the soul inherently immortal by nature rather than in dependence on God 's will , and to suppose it capable of reincarnation . |
| 13 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 14 | Easy enough for the reader to imagine such a precisely-described scene , and to get it right , you 'd think . |
| 15 | After a while , doing that once or twice , you 'll get a real feel for it , and you 'll then know how to write it and , and to get it right . |
| 16 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 17 | And to top it all , it has pledged to maintain high employment and an annual economic growth rate of 1.9 per cent . |
| 18 | And to top it all the Allies then imposed a 26 per cent tax on all goods and materials imported into Germany . |
| 19 | And to top it all off there were the dispiriting revelations that Liverpool 's manager Graeme Souness , had not only phoned his congratulations through to John Major from his private hospital bed , but also , allegedly for mega-bucks , allowed himself to appear on the front of the Sun on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with his tongue down the throat of a former TV hostess . |
| 20 | Sleighthome , Bramley , Bracken , Clarke , Crompton and Ravenscroft had already earned selection for the Student World Cup team in Italy , and to top it all the first three also enjoyed a trip to Namibia and Zimbabwe with the senior North Divisional team ! |
| 21 | And to top it all off , he was gorgeous . |
| 22 | As we are all aware , they have cut the grant available to safety representatives training , sorry , for safety representatives ' training and will completely eliminate that grant by nineteen ninety five and to top it all they have just announced that a review of all health and safety legislation will be completed by April next year the objective of this review is to reduce the so-called burdens health and safety legislation puts on employers . |
| 23 | Rampant inflation , excessive public expenditure , lack of private investment because of ex excessive tax burdens , and to top it all , an industrial relations policy that brought this country to its knees , making it the subject of derision throughout the world . |
| 24 | And to cap it all , the bland sleazy boredom of it all . |
| 25 | And to cap it all off , when she was tied-up she could n't run backwards , so she lay down instead ! |
| 26 | And to cap it all , in my front garden , a taxus that has already outgirthed Sir Cyril Smith was making a takeover bid for my car runway , so that friends would smilingly open their drivers ' doors only to get a mouthful of evergreen . |
| 27 | And to cap it all , the Brahms and Beethoven so beloved of the buffs was going through amp stages by the score , before and during transmission . |
| 28 | And to cap it all you let a wanted man make good his escape . ’ |
| 29 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 30 | Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds ! |