Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
| 2 | At a point with ‘ Arc ’ I said ‘ OK , we 're off and we 're flying , this is distorted and grunged out to the max ’ . |
| 3 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 4 | The Prince , still shaking his head , rose and walked over to a carved bookstand which was similar to a lectern in a church . |
| 5 | He placed the ointment on the table beside her , rose and walked over to the window . |
| 6 | But she rose and walked over to the table , moving stiffly because of muscles chilled from sitting in the stone window embrasure for so long . |
| 7 | Tallis rose and walked over to the pile of nuts and berries . |
| 8 | At last , when all the stalls were full , Lady Amelia gestured to the cantor not to begin the usual psalms and caused a stir when she herself rose and swept up to the lectern . |
| 9 | An afternoon to yourself to discover the treasures of this revered Cathedral City then a little nap , perhaps and later refreshed and invigorated off to a gala evening with a menu fit for a king . |
| 10 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 11 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 12 | Some of the sites are enormously rich , however , and the history of palaeontology is punctuated by quite unscientific feuds between experts trying to find and hold on to the best sites for the most spectacular vertebrates . |
| 13 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 14 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 15 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 16 | It was absorbed and went in to the Carrick Herald and the Aire Advertiser , and now they 've all gone . |
| 17 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 18 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 19 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 21 | Later this year a third intake will be built and linked in to the system which will automatically transfer raw materials to the mill . |
| 22 | Then we 'd dress and go back to the bar , order |
| 23 | All the cans of food and money , which came to more than £50 , has been collected and passed on to the County Durham Kostroma Appeal . |
| 24 | Pour in the stock , bring to the boil , then cover and turn down to a gentle simmer for about 1 hour and cook until tender , stirring occasionally . |
| 25 | By the next day , hundreds of Chinese students gathered at the Nanjing campuses calling for the African students to be punished and marched on to the municipal offices . |
| 26 | The information is then downloaded and sent back to the customer . |
| 27 | Now there 's a little piece , can I mention a little piece in the local thing , there 's a little press release here which Robert produced and sent off to the local newspaper . |
| 28 | The girls , looking one to the other , darting hate , hardly three foot tall , arose and walked down to the front of the class . |
| 29 | Rain felt her legs weaken and sank on to the edge of the bed . |
| 30 | One man was killed and another two people injured when a car overturned and smashed in to the front wall of a house . |