Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to be generous and went in to the shop . |
| 2 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 3 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 4 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 5 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 6 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 7 | Sean ( Being really sad and coming in to the library on a sunday to do some work ) |
| 8 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 9 | Conference , could you be upstanding and welcome on to the platform , Catherine and , delegates from the Lancashire region where last year 's congress was held , to unveil the G M B banner . |
| 10 | Finally , the lead pickup alone is placed as usual at the end of the track , so you can still clobber the switch hard right and get back to the classic , hard-edged Telecaster tone . |
| 11 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 12 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 13 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 14 | I awoke feeling cold and crawled out to the front of the trench . |
| 15 | At length I grew tired and went back to the joys of the tavern , both the board and the bed . |
| 16 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 17 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |
| 18 | How could anyone know that Wetherby was going to get hungry and go down to the kitchen for some cheese ? |
| 19 | The designer , Sandy Powell , has known Anderson since their first day at St Martin 's when they played truant and headed off to the pub after about 15 minutes . |
| 20 | One evening I felt restless and walked down to the harbour . |
| 21 | There was a pause , then he said , ‘ Well now , would you be very kind and go down to the cabin and fetch me a bottle of wine , Jim ? |
| 22 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 23 | As the traffic slowed , he had thrust the door open and rolled on to the tarmac between the lines of cars . |
| 24 | Forty minutes was enough , but after a shower and a breakfast of fruit and cups of tea I felt very sprightly and strolled out to the row of shops nearby . |
| 25 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 26 | Chairman the , the mechanism is well practised and widely known it starts with the draft two two B in the January the Committee and after a period of about five to six months ' consultation within which the board programme of work of all capitalists are listed and put out to the community for response through their elected organization as to acceptability , five points of detail who were at relatively hirer one man to speak |
| 27 | Some found the conflict too intense and retired back to the closet , perhaps for ever . |