Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 2 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 3 | She closed her eyes and dropped on to the bed , her heart pounding . |
| 4 | He managed to murmur Mayli 's name , then closed his eyes and slid down to the floor . |
| 5 | Then , tossing the towel to one side , she closed her eyes and collapsed on to the open sleeping-bag . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer . |
| 7 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 8 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 9 | He wore a red bandana and drank white Russians and quoted Kerouac and spoke loudly in superlatives and sang along to the radio in a shrill and grating soprano . |
| 10 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 11 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 12 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 13 | At the well they left their books and went down to the shore . |
| 14 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
| 15 | As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards . |
| 16 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |
| 17 | She should have ticked off Miss Vine 's name on her list and been ready to carry the empty plates and covers back to the van . |
| 18 | He ran back to the window , snatched the keys and tore back to the boot . |
| 19 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 20 | He got to his feet and walked over to the window hearing the angry voice but no longer having to face her , watching the reflection of her pacing figure , the swirling hair . |
| 21 | Willie staggered to his feet and hung on to the side of the cart . |
| 22 | He clambered slowly back to his feet and ambled back to the village . |
| 23 | Jessica got to her knees , holding herself and snorting , then staggered to her feet and ran down to the water . |
| 24 | To her surprise he jerked to his feet and went over to the video machine and yanked the cassette out without rewinding it . |
| 25 | I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light . |
| 26 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 27 | Fluffing her hair in a fine halo around her head with brisk brush strokes , and sketching in warm-toned eyeshadow , mascara and lipstick , Belinda was soon ready to slip into matt black court shoes and go out to the veranda . |
| 28 | We put on our gym shoes and trooped out to the gym in silence . |
| 29 | Iris stuck her fork in the earth and trundled off down the garden with her barrow while Melissa went indoors , reported her problem to the telephone engineers and wandered back to the kitchen . |
| 30 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |