Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] and [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure related to the costs of the previous year 's bid defence against the hostile takeover attempt by Whyte & Mackay and had to be taken above the line as a result of the FRS 3 accounting rule . |
| 2 | Homeless people got off trains at Euston , King 's Cross and Paddington and came to that area . |
| 3 | But Ken more and more did n't want a lot of the bad language that passed between him and Orton and Halliwell to be included . |
| 4 | She uses two name Cindy and Linda and claims to be fourteen years old . |
| 5 | Eyeing her and Nigel and speaking to the air . |
| 6 | Up to 600 Bewick swans make the long journey from Russia between October and December and return to Siberia in February . |
| 7 | He turned to Martin and Mihal and said to them , " Go back to the forest , my children , live rightly , and never let the sacred fire go out . |
| 8 | Dutch chiaroscuro , dark and sombre , would hold him for a while yet , until he freed himself from Rembrandt , Millet , and Israëls and turned to Delacroix 's symphonies of colour . |
| 9 | The stories can range from the most tragic such as The Rake 's Progress , Romeo and Juliet and Mayerling to the lyrical fantasy of The Dream and from the subtle and poignant A Month in the Country to the happily funny La Fille Mal Gardée or the rumbustious Pineapple Poll . |
| 10 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 11 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 12 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 13 | Primary productivity is generally low , averaging 10–50mg C m -2 daily in May and June and rising to 70–80 mg C m -2 daily during the summer peak of production ; on average only 6–12g C m -2 fixed throughout the year ( Kalff , 1970 ; Minns , 1977 ) . |