Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 2 | In the course of our case studies in the manufacturing sector we encountered several organisations which had recently introduced or extended their use of temporary working and which referred to the workers concerned as " casuals " . |
| 3 | His industry was prodigious and he left to the Museum a volume of files , indexes , and notebooks filled with accurate and methodically arranged taxonomic work , together with his exceptionally fine library of works on Polyzoa and whales . |
| 4 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 5 | my Lord we have said in a number of places the claims are erm unlawful and we refer to the fact that the claims come out of the central fund bi-law |
| 6 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 7 | ‘ My mum 's brilliant and I go to a lovely young designer called Richard Kinlock , who 's superb . |
| 8 | The stool he was standing on broke and he fell to the ground . |
| 9 | The third light was green and it skidded to a halt . |
| 10 | Now , if you , if a woman gets hurt and she goes to the police for help they come to the house and they tell the people concerned it 's a domestic argument ! |
| 11 | The bus crashed to a halt , the doors puffed open and she dropped to the road . |
| 12 | And so then I So I was very , very disappointed and I went to a shop then called Dixon-Parkers which was a bigger shop and er a very well-known shop . |
| 13 | If that er clothing becomes heated and it gets to the right temperature it will burst into the flames , likewise if it 's not balanced properly and you go out the door the living room or the lounge into the kitchen or some other part of your home the draft by closing the door can knock the airer over , unbalance it and of course er set fire to the clothing . |
| 14 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 15 | Everything was ready and she returned to the yard to sit on the bench beside the rose tree , to sit and wait , eyes closed , and will her clenched fingers one by one into relaxation . |
| 16 | The other variable which was not patient defined and which contributed to the multiple regression model was being under the care of a general practitioner with a special interest in diabetes . |