Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 2 | Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 3 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 4 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 5 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 6 | Substances may accumulate and disappear according to the functions which they serve and the stages in the plant 's life cycle . |
| 7 | Second , once divested of their zonae , embryos of all stages are very sticky and tend to adhere to one another as well as to most culture dishes . |
| 8 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 9 | These proportions are not , in fact , significantly different , statistically speaking , from the proportions based on the same series and calculated according to methods 2 and 3 above , which each give estimates of 53 per cent left hemisphere speech among left handers . |
| 10 | Four elements of interest and influence need to be weighed against each other , namely the effect of the parent as the educator who is helped by the school , the school as the institutional teacher who is helped by the parent , the school as the manager and decider ( with the parent being kept informed ) and the school itself as the only " real " provider of education . |
| 11 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 12 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 13 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 14 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 15 | He then reappeared in the dining car with an interested crowd of people following him and asked to speak to Xanthe , who up until then had kept palely quiet . |
| 16 | ‘ Edwards rang Barnet yesterday at 1.40pm and asked to speak to Stan who was n't there . |
| 17 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 18 | Margaret and Dickie were in the garden playing badminton when Mr Remington-Hart rang up and asked to speak to my aunt . |
| 19 | Later that evening Heathcliff 's servant Joseph arrived and asked to speak to the master . |
| 20 | He got an outside line dialled the law courts and asked to speak to Luciano Bartocci.While he waited he looked round his office with a deepening frown , trying to track down the detail which had been altered . |
| 21 | In the early hours of 14 May last year Saltcoats-based McGregor phoned the Dundee home of Derek Kelbie , 44 , and asked to speak to Tracey Ann McLaughlan . |
| 22 | and put the phone down and she rung straight over onto Jan 's extension and asked to speak to Maureen and Jan , so Debbie got a snip of it cos Judith refused , she said rude cow , she said she need n't have slammed the phone down she could have at least said hello so they had her dinner time said Jan was that Lynnette on the phone ? |
| 23 | Presumably the synthetic oligonucleotide was taken up by the cells and became bound to the complementary sequence on the viral RNA . |
| 24 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 25 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 26 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | As machines were introduced to record activity , these support data were printed out onto paper , were signed , dated and cross referenced by the scientist and became attached to the book 's pages . |
| 28 | Throughout the period , the District appeared to develop a policy of containment of its gradually mounting deficit and became habituated to an existence of permanent indebtedness . |
| 29 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 30 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |