Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When first developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , it was designed — so it could be argued — to neutralize music 's potential political power , bracket off its critical threat in a ‘ utopian ’ enclave and confine negation to individual statement . |
| 2 | Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change services to the software , claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client/server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system managers time , according to Tivoli . |
| 3 | You can add new words or phrases and change translations to a form which suits your way of remembering things . |
| 4 | Thus if a seller entrusts identified and appropriated goods to a carrier with instructions that they be conveyed to the buyer but not handed over until the buyer has paid , the goods will remain the seller 's property until the buyer pays for them . |
| 5 | Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress . |
| 6 | Young people 's awareness of agricultural issues is promoted through publicity material , information packs and planned visits to farms . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 8 | If she had sat down and explained things to me , I do n't care how long it took , it would have been something . |
| 9 | She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising . |
| 10 | This is a boy who is married to a woman 14 years his senior and plays father to a girl only nine years younger than himself . |
| 11 | Green was very impressed and recommended Greenly to the director of the Geological Survey . |
| 12 | On the bed Stark groaned loudly and clapped hands to the wound . |
| 13 | A STUDENT trying to escape from a stuck lift slipped and plunged 55ft to his death , a Belfast inquest heard . |
| 14 | And what of Malcolm Crosby … he teamed up with Smith at York … followed him to Roker and then took over and led Sunderland to Wembley … |
| 15 | The theory under attack was the notion that a band of prophets , under the leadership of William Wilberforce , had roused the conscience of a corrupted nation and led humanity to a decisive victory over the evils of materialism , avarice and human exploitation . |
| 16 | A SALESMAN turned detective and led police to the bloodstained body of the pregnant wife Marie Wilks , the M50 murder trial heard yesterday . |
| 17 | Sara disengaged herself and led Jenny to a chair . |
| 18 | The beefy man climbed down from behind his counter and led Joe to the back of the shop , where he unlocked a door . |
| 19 | Matt Ryan … who won the individual gold in the three day event and led Australia to a famous win . |
| 20 | It is simply that a permissive culture which makes increasingly fewer demands on the egos and superegos of its citizens where self-restraint , postponement of gratification and drive-inhibition in general are concerned must — unless it is to dissolve in anarchy — abrogate those restraining , controlling and inhibiting functions to itself and to its agencies of social control . |
| 21 | ‘ Come , come and sit dose to me and keep an old man warm . ’ |
| 22 | Mr. Wells dismisses suggestions that the people of York are becoming weary of tourists , particularly when they are continually stopped in the street and asked directions to the minster and other attractions . |
| 23 | In December 1974 Camilla and Andrew had their first child — and asked Charles to be a godfather . |
| 24 | ‘ What a treasure ’ and asked Stella to afternoon tea at George Henry Lee 's across the road . |
| 25 | Amidst the usual panic that surrounds such occasions , I tried to keep calm and asked Mother to hand me the landing net . |
| 26 | The council tried to take Mr Rowse to court for fraud and deception , and asked Rhoda to be the star witness for the prosecution but she refused , and had a startling remission , as Mr Rowse had promised her she would if she were only loyal . |
| 27 | On 18 November 1715 he was received by George Hickes [ q.v. ] into the nonjuring communion , and became minister to a congregation in Holborn . |
| 28 | In 1774 he emigrated to America where he edited an influential newspaper and became friend to Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . |
| 29 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 30 | Far from wealthy , he took deacon 's orders and became chaplain to his cousin , Robert Sutton , second Baron Lexington [ q.v. ] , the new ambassador to Vienna in 1694 . |