Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and change them to a bigger size |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 4 | He gripped her wrist firmly and led her to a door . |
| 5 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 6 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 7 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 8 | ‘ How did you get on today — have you found a nanny to help you with the children ? ’ he added , throwing her into confusion by casually giving her a peck on the cheek before leaning across the table and helping himself to a slice of chocolate cake . |
| 9 | She went into the empty staff-room and helping herself to a cup of coffee , she sank wearily into a chair . |
| 10 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 11 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 12 | If they do not pay , he will take the land back and sell it to a rich friend . |
| 13 | Dana ran after him , catching his arm and bringing him to a standstill . |
| 14 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 15 | He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt . |
| 16 | In the face of thumb joints with developing arthritis , I decided to lash out and treat myself to a Silver Reed punching machine , PM10 . |
| 17 | ( She kept the combings and sold them to a wig-maker when there was a suitable quantity , because the texture of her hair and its being pure white made it especially suitable for his work . ) |
| 18 | ESSENTIALLY a cutesy platform romp , New Zealand Story ( Master System ) tells the tale of a rather dodgy walrus who has kidnapped loads of kiwi chicks and sold them to a zoo in New Zealand . |
| 19 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 20 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 21 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 22 | A MAN stole scrap metal from his employer and sold it to a dealer , magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 23 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 24 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 25 | Police immediately arrested a young man and pinned him to a trolley , stifling his shouts about unemployment . |
| 26 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 27 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 28 | Gardens of the world were made by gardeners who found new and beautiful flowers in the wilderness and transplanted them to a garden . |
| 29 | They 'd be sorry for me , they 'd give me whisky and aspirins and send me to a psychiatrist . |
| 30 | Make this Thinking Day card and send it to a Rainbow or Brownie friend . |