Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association and pointed out to the proprietor of the Daily Mail the danger of damaging democracy through a last minute election stunt story . |
| 2 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 3 | Another bullet fired from the same revolver had entered the outside of the driver 's ( that is , the left-hand ) door of the jeep and passed through to the edge of the driver 's seat without striking Paulette . |
| 4 | The Mechelen striker , who is owned by his club president and leased out to the Belgian team , was on his way home last night after less than a week on Tyneside . |
| 5 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 6 | Slowly he rose from his seat and went over to the headmaster who stood twisting the piece of white chalk between his fingers . |
| 7 | As was proved when , without replying to her question about the interview , he left the driver 's seat and came round to the passenger 's door . |
| 8 | Calmly and methodically , Kirov climbed from the driving seat and skirted round to the back of the van , opening the rear door . |
| 9 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 10 | She put the scarf back round her neck and went through to the shop . |
| 11 | His hand moved from her neck and wandered down to the soft fullness of her body . |
| 12 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |
| 13 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 14 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 15 | Steve picked up his sandwich and went over to the television set where he sat eating it while he watched the news . |
| 16 | Charles shuffled through his pockets for a two p piece and went down to the phone . |
| 17 | You hurriedly get out of your car and go round to the rear . |
| 18 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 19 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 20 | Shelley swallowed the lump in her throat and said hoarsely , trying to be businesslike , ‘ I 'll accept that , because I thought instead of flying home I 'd like to hire a car and drive up to the north — see something of the rest of the country . ’ |
| 21 | Ross agreed gratefully , arranging to hire a car and drive out to the Hampton 's later on that afternoon . |
| 22 | He kissed her on the forehead , then climbed out of the car and walked round to the other side . |
| 23 | Instead , not wanting to risk a scene without more evidence of his suspicions , he went back to his car and drove back to the Club , stopping briefly at a couple of pubs on the way to see if Gwen was in either . |
| 24 | Henry got out of the car and sauntered over to the Sierra . |
| 25 | She was wasting her breath , she saw , for Ven was already out of the car and coming round to the passenger door . |
| 26 | I remember the time I came out of the engineering shack and walked over to the gas tank er trucks and , which was on , used by hardstand number two . |
| 27 | We started out into the snow and stepped on to the ice-covered apron ; that soon took the look off Nathan 's face . |
| 28 | She grabbed her handbag and went through to the bathroom . |
| 29 | Rain was dripping through the roof in several places , falling with a recurrent plop and splash on to the wet floor-boards . |
| 30 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |