Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files …
2 Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out .
3 God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table .
4 She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms .
5 After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human .
6 Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room .
7 Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button .
8 Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button .
9 At the top of the shaft , push the crate right onto the switch , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , push the next crate right onto the button , then go along the next conveyor belt .
10 In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass .
11 After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson .
12 Without looking back he ran to the end of the passageway and climbed up to hide in the shelves .
13 Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo .
14 Tal gave a most unparrotlike crow and flew up to perch on the top of a monitor .
15 The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming .
16 He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates .
17 If he thought something interesting , he would desert what he was doing and amble off to meditate on the new idea , muttering to himself as he walked .
18 He shares Taylor 's view that England will win and go on to qualify for the USA finals .
19 And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da !
20 And then she turned away , and went over to check on the stove .
21 His first memorandum began by indicting the government 's supposedly annexationist motives for going to war and went on to inveigh against the economic and cultural backwardness which the conflict had brought to light .
22 First , in his evidence he referred to a better solution as being quotes , seeks a small residential setting with some other people , unquote and went on to refer to the possibility of the plaintiff entering one of the Cheshire Homes .
23 Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire .
24 The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion .
25 About 80 per cent of officials in these ministries survived the US purge and went on to cooperate with the Occupation in containing the labour movement into ‘ sound ’ de-politicized unions .
26 The new " scottish National Institute " did however refer in its prospectus to the NAPSS meeting , and went on to speak of the " surplus female population " which required " fresh fields for the employment of their energies " .
27 A dark , cowled figure came in and went up to stand in the Lady Chapel .
28 Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench .
29 On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest .
30 Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night .
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