Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change also tends to implicitly adopt this model . |
| 2 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 3 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 4 | The two have an argument and vow never to speak to each other again , whereupon Serena leaves for a holiday with Rupert on a volcanic island in the Aegean to which Rusty and his wife have recently been transferred . |
| 5 | Prejudice , ignorance , frustration and fear together lead to hatred . |
| 6 | The transfer of David O'Leary was a disaster as seen in him missing injured since the third game and has yet to return to full fitness . |
| 7 | The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division . |
| 8 | The system is said to be the most advanced in the world , and has already led to several arrests . |
| 9 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 10 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
| 11 | The Lincoln is the basis of the Hungarian Pankota Red and has also contributed to the American Fort Cross . |
| 12 | The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton , Derbyshire . |
| 13 | I am delighted that Haringey councillor Ian Willmore has rediscovered the problems of Tottenham and has even taken to pondering the question of which candidate for the Labour leadership is best equipped to tackle these problems ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 14 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 15 | Council tenure , almost non-existent in 1914 , grew to a maximum or 34 per cent of households in 1980 and has since declined to 24 per cent , plus 2 per cent of households which rent from housing associations . |
| 16 | The number of mental hospital beds trebled to over 300,000 in 20 years and has since risen to 340,000 . |
| 17 | The Freshman Consultancy opened in January 1991 in offices near London 's Euston station and has since moved to Chamber Street in E1 near Tower Hill . |
| 18 | The health and safety department now known as the health and safety and environment department , is envied by other unions , and has clearly responded to its own review . |
| 19 | That sum was the Bundesliga transfer record as recently as last season and has only risen to £3.3m since Mattheus Sammer left Italy for Borussia Dortmund . |
| 20 | the pair were spending a season in New Zealand at the invitation of McIntosh 's elder brother , Shane , who had himself played for Pontypridd and has recently returned to Britain to play for West of Scotland . |
| 21 | To help the customer select the ‘ right ’ style , the company constantly updates its stock and has recently added to its existing ranges Harlequin , Interior Selection , Today 's Interiors , Jab , Romo , Craig and Rose and Brian Yates makes . |
| 22 | Such are the complexities of the three-year allocation of points in the Sony world rankings that Faldo lost everything he had gained from his Masters victory of 1989 and has consequently dropped to fourth . |
| 23 | SIR Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , comes from Anglo-Irish Protestant stock in Co Cork , and has long aspired to the testing role he has won . |
| 24 | It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains . |
| 25 | This section on internal buildings has necessarily covered a considerable amount of very detailed information and has inevitably had to be selective . |
| 26 | This is rather a subjective approach , and has sometimes led to the situation where the same eruption has been given a different label by different observers . |
| 27 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 28 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |
| 29 | Her worries and cares oddly seemed to just desert her . |
| 30 | These identifiers can be changed ; the identifiers need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid identifiers which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |