Example sentences of "and [noun pl] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each week the ladies spent anxious hours in Andrew 's Beauty Salon having their hair tinted and set , still more anxious hours in Dawn 's Dresse Shoppe or the Hudson 's Bay Company store , adding more dresses and hats to their already over-extended charge accounts . |
| 2 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 3 | Keith Lodge , nine , suffered cuts and bruises to his leg after his ordeal in Darlington 's Eastbourne park . |
| 4 | By the Eighties Holroyd tells us , there were no less than 50 Study Guides and Notes to his plays issued for the benefit of students . |
| 5 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 6 | ‘ Bring your bottles , paper and cans to your local centre , ’ said Councillor Green . |
| 7 | The story goes that in colonial times , La Paz 's upper classes used to hold a three-day festival in the main square , graciously dispensing banknotes and coins to their children and servants . |
| 8 | His explicit sense of personal grief and reactions to their deaths range musically in this vast symphonic threnody from a virulent anger and furiously hollow rhetoric to hauntingly elegiac meditation . |
| 9 | It has also to be recognized that all owners may need to make alterations and improvements to their property from time to time . |
| 10 | The computer automatically lowers the body by 15mm above 75mph for improved stability and returns to its usual setting below 50mph . |
| 11 | After a while , the cat gives up and returns to its familiar territory . |
| 12 | Even if the male is not ready to spawn and chases him away , She swims in this fashion while being pursued , and returns to her chosen mate as soon as possible . |
| 13 | Arthur falls for fun-loving actress Rose Trelawny but she finds his family too stuffy and returns to her old pals . |
| 14 | Then he gives up puzzling over it , and returns to my talk with Richardson on the phone . |
| 15 | " So , " I said , " when it gets to the target area it drops the warhead and returns to our warm outstretched arms ? " |
| 16 | Thereupon he turns back irresolutely and returns to his house only to find , as a fresh disappointment , that his wife is not there . |
| 17 | He nods to me and returns to his song . |
| 18 | Having enjoyed a very tasty breakfast , he feels good and returns to his room to collect his luggage . |
| 19 | Excerpts from the letter read : ‘ All too often these days customers have to put up with defective and unsatisfactory goods , and , at best , an indifferent attitude by retailers and manufacturers to their problems and complaints . |
| 20 | On the one hand , advisory roles are shifting more towards inspection and quality control , and the accountability of advisers and inspectors to their employing LEAs is being more firmly underscored ( Audit Commission 1989b ) . |
| 21 | As she stared down at him , her eyes huge , deep and dark , her hair tumbled wildly round her face , she gave a slow smile and began to trail provocative kisses from his nose , cheeks and eyes to his chin . |
| 22 | By that he meant the rich , using their wealth , are able to manipulate the flow of information and images to their own advantage . |
| 23 | The more banking is based on the confidence of the customer in the individual bank and the closer , therefore , the bank-customer relationship is , the more severely any misuse of confidential information by a bank or its employees would jeopardize the confidence of present and … future customers of that bank and thereby damage the bank through the loss of business and clients to its competitors . |
| 24 | The social worker can , also , in co-operation with the social services occupational therapist and physiotherapist , arrange for them to be supplied with any special aids they need for safety and mobility , and adaptations to their home . |
| 25 | He did not care for sending his friends and subjects to their deaths but in order to preserve the realm there was little else he could do . |
| 26 | He crawled on his hands and knees to his quilt and slumped down on top of it , breathing heavily and filling the darkness with the reek of beer . |
| 27 | Johnny Coppin hopes most of all that readers and listeners to his music and poetry collections will get a sense of the spirit of place of the land between the rivers meandering down to the sea |
| 28 | One especially neat feature — which I have n't seen in other laser printers — is a range of macros adding tinted underlays , lines and borders to your dreary documents . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ Everything happens in front of the customer 's eyes and solutions to their needs are clearly described in an easy to follow format . |
| 30 | It avoids the pitfall of trying to be too clever , and thanks to its ice-sharp ingenuity offers entertainment of the highest quality . |