Example sentences of "and [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 2 | By a strange twist of fate , the first Chilean to welcome Valenzuela to his new home in France was Castro , a ‘ Mirista ’ who was captured in broad daylight and stripped to his underwear back in December 1974 , while Valenzuela stood guard at the corner . |
| 3 | Only in a secure and loving atmosphere can the child cope with the shocks that have preceded and accompanied their coming into care , and develop to their full potential . |
| 4 | Feeling sick with relief that she had not run away with a rich man , Frankie shook his head vigorously in agreement and clung to her arm . |
| 5 | Nicky slid off the sofa and clung to her legs . |
| 6 | It was a year or more since they had met , but he ran out of the shop and clung to her elbow . |
| 7 | The grass was heavy with dew ; drops of mist bowed the unopened flowers and clung to my Sacrifice Poles , too , like clear blood on the shrivelled heads and tiny , desiccated bodies . |
| 8 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 9 | Balbinder was very reluctant and clung to his mother . |
| 10 | He managed to catch Angus a half-decent clip across the right ear , but the sinister Campbell grabbed him from behind and clung to his neck . |
| 11 | Fully discussed with and explained to your customer in advance to ensure they are clearly and fully understood , |
| 12 | Come up and repeat to your left side . |
| 13 | Gandhi speaks of loving enemies and reacting to their wrongdoings in the same way as you would react to the wrong-doings of friends and relatives . |
| 14 | Finding her voice at last , and reacting to his disapproving tone , she retorted , ‘ What were you doing , following me ? ’ |
| 15 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |
| 16 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |
| 17 | This result made myc the obvious gene to look for in other lymphomas — and led to its identification on chromosome 8 . |
| 18 | As a result , violent explosions rocked the vessel and led to its abandonment within an hour of the attack . |
| 19 | It was ultimately the inability of the access streets to cope with a hugely increased traffic problem which choked the markets to death in the 1960s and led to their demolition . |
| 20 | This was shared by his family and led to their feeling insecure about his new environment . |
| 21 | Harriet Taylor 's theories made a major impact on Mill , and led to their mutual conception and drafting of On Liberty ( 1859 ) . |
| 22 | His practice of hunger-striking when detained has attracted international attention and the displeasure of the authorities , and led to his release from custody earlier this year . |
| 23 | PROFESSOR GRIFF , rap fans wo n't need reminding , is the chap whose intemperate outbursts concerning global zionist conspiracies and the like , caused embarrassment even among his then collaborators , Public Enemy , and led to his ultimate departure from that fold . |
| 24 | His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 . |
| 25 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 26 | The discovery of the positron in 1932 confirmed Dirac 's theory and led to his being awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1933 . |
| 27 | WASHINGTON , D.C. In an effort to ease the economic woes precipitated by the dissolution of the Soviet Union , many of America 's premier museums recently sent food and supplies to their Russian counterparts . |
| 28 | As the men resumed work , Mr Friend said he told his colleagues to make themselves comfortable and to strip to their underwear to dig . |
| 29 | I could almost see her come out of the water with her short hair glistening wet and pressed to her forehead . |
| 30 | To ensure that his/her own working practices and those of the staff for which he/she is responsible , comply with the Safety Policy and to report to their Head of Section any incident affecting health or safety . |