Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | But they stayed the longest in Baldersdale , apart from me of course , and eventually retired down to Hunderthwaite , down near the main road . |
| 3 | The system is thoroughly tested and eventually handed over to the user . |
| 4 | This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) . |
| 5 | Weber looked thoughtfully out at , the battle-torn cavern , and slowly reached out to the ship 's telegraph , ringing up the order to start engines . |
| 6 | Shiona gripped the steering-wheel and squeezed her eyes shut and slowly counted up to ten . |
| 7 | He swung the binoculars towards the ranks of spectators on either side of the 18th fairway , and slowly traversed back to the tee . |
| 8 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 9 | The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser . |
| 10 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 11 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 12 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 13 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 14 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 15 | He took his time ; first cutting the cigar , then heating its tip with a succession of matches that he carelessly and provocatively dropped on to Wavebreaker 's scrubbed deck . |
| 16 | The beards come in a range of attractive colours ; pink to match your top , green , surfing blue , day-glo yellow and natural brown for those who desire a more rugged countenance , and once strapped on to the face with its Gortex-coated elastic strap , the beard provides the wearer with complete all-round chin exposure protection . |
| 17 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 18 | FIVE cool businessmen stumbled from the wreckage of their crashed plane … and smartly stepped off to work . |
| 19 | For the first time , the marks made by the artist could be accurately and directly reproduced on to plates . |
| 20 | As the title of this present show suggests , there are works from those early student days with a leavening from his period of teaching in between and now brought up to date with a batch of more recent work . |
| 21 | He dummied and immediately pointed out to the referee his opponent 's falter ( whether he actually stepped off-side or not ! ) . |
| 22 | The BBC 's proposed solution was that everything should be handled by the BBC and then licensed back to the publishers . |
| 23 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 24 | They lived initially in Vila Victoria , near to and belonging to Reid 's , and then moved up to Quinta Gordon ( also known as Quinta de Monte ) , in Monte at the invitation of the owner , Luis da Rocha Machado . |
| 25 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 26 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |
| 27 | The man replaced the blanket , and then moved on to another corpse . |
| 28 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 29 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 30 | After breaking the windows , enraged by the early departure of the guests , the mob set fire to two meeting places and then moved on to Priestley 's house . |