Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disappeared , then reappeared behind the counter and whispered something to the girl who was on duty there . |
| 2 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 3 | Cousin Jane looked across at her and smiled and whispered something to Mike . |
| 4 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 5 | Toolbars are also customizable ; you can construct your own by dragging tools from existing bars and attaching them to your own . |
| 6 | This is not , in fact , a problem , since LIFESPAN provides the tools for creating other DCs as the need arises and attaching them to the same package . |
| 7 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 8 | Preliminary identification of the peptide binding to the SSB oligonucleotide was accomplished by synthesising a 5' biotinolyated SSB oligonucleotide and attaching it to magnetic Dynal beads coated with streptavidin . |
| 9 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 10 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 11 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 12 | Take one whole one , from the three whole ones , and change it to twelfths . |
| 13 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 14 | She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 16 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 17 | ‘ Confound you , ca n't you even face me now ? ’ he growled , and , walking up to her , he bent to seize her arms and drag her to her feet . |
| 18 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 19 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
| 20 | The BTEC HND courses consistently and successfully attract students of a more practical than academic inclination , and develop them to the stage where their natural pragmatic talents have been enhanced with a rigorous regime of integrated business skills . |
| 21 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 22 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 23 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 24 | Albert Tailors , in the shape of old Mr Albert himself , took one look at him and channelled him to the Teens Room , which was festooned with guitars and pictures of pop singers . |
| 25 | Salt shook her shoulder and when that made no difference , dragged her to her feet and propelled her to the small book-lined room known as the study . |
| 26 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 27 | Over the last few years the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) has been active in consulting with British industry and encouraging it to be competitive in the European market . |
| 28 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 29 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 30 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |