Example sentences of "and [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 2 | To do this exercise , put the carriage to E , where you 'll find it tucks to the right and knits to the left . |
| 3 | The edict of Guntram issued at Péronne , and appended to the canons of the Council of Mâcon of 585 , continues royal involvement in ecclesiastical legislation , with an attack on Sunday work , and by backing the force of the canons with secular sanctions . |
| 4 | When the fish are well on feed I will put one rod away and change to a butt-indicator which allows me to fish more quickly and efficiently . |
| 5 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 6 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
| 7 | And change to the C drive so if you type C col |
| 8 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 10 | Limited liability means that the financial liability of each person responsible as a member of the business is fixed from the outset and limited to a fixed amount . |
| 11 | An executive President would be head of state ; holders of this office would in future be elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |
| 12 | The head of state is the executive President , elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |
| 13 | These penetrate the foot of the molluscan intermediate host and develop to the infective L3 , and during this phase the mollusc may be eaten by paratenic hosts such as birds and rodents . |
| 14 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 15 | Some does , and some comes from contributions and grants to the ADAA Foundation , a separate corporation . |
| 16 | Yeltsin announced a softening of economic policy , with extra credits to industries , investments in agriculture and grants to the military conversion project . |
| 17 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 18 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 19 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 20 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 21 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
| 22 | A string of mucus hung from her left nostril and clung to the curve of her lipsticked mouth ; the waitresses kept looking across at the table . |
| 23 | The ground dipped and swayed beneath her ; she felt dizzy and clung to the rails , forcing herself to go down , to keep looking up , away from the void below . |
| 24 | Millicent Fawcett vehemently objected to family allowances becoming a feminist plank and clung to the typically nineteenth-century belief that allowances ‘ would destroy the fabric of family life by wiping out the responsibility of parents for the maintenance of their children ’ . |
| 25 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 26 | Alone , she reached out and clung to the wooden balustrade . |
| 27 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
| 28 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 29 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 30 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |