Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby , fishermen sort their nets before hanging them up to dry in the tall net ‘ shops ’ that are unique to Hastings ; and delicious fresh fish is always available from the fishmarket . |
| 2 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 3 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 4 | And every day he spends in bed wastes away a little more of his authority : parliament does n't like sick leaders , it casts them out to die on the cold , cold slopes of the House of Lords . |
| 5 | I hold them up to look through the paper . |
| 6 | You were pulling him back to get on the dance floor ! |
| 7 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |
| 8 | And when you get to er to the landing you turn it round through forty five degrees and then down a little bit further and eventually you tip it over to go down the stairs . |
| 9 | It seems likely that his preoccupation with her promisingly clever older sister , Jenny ( Jane Alice ) , caused unhappiness in May 's childhood and further spurred her on to succeed in the practical arts . |
| 10 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 11 | A fish and chip shop owner called me in to deal with the lower half of a long-skirted ancestor which often glided through her kitchen . |
| 12 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 13 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 14 | To this man he entrusted six wagonloads of treasure , and sent him off to wander over the whole wide world , looking for a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane . |
| 15 | I grabbed hold of the gravimetric to turn it round to look for the the switch which is on other side . |
| 16 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 17 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 18 | Consuelo had taken them out to get at the anti-inflammatory tablets for the patient with the sprained ankle . |
| 19 | Contact SCIAF to have someone out to speak to the parish/group/school |
| 20 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 21 | but oh dear but he , mum did get him off to sleep in the end |
| 22 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 23 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 24 | We 're asking that you test the temperature of your politicians that offer themselves up to stand on the councils , and we believe that being a good environmentalist aids all of their political life and er saving the environment now will save money in the future . |
| 25 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 26 | Normally , the owner must take the cassette out of the machine by hand , and flip it over to record on the other side . |
| 27 | joined us on to assist in the office . |
| 28 | joined us on to assist in the laboratory , ( she likes to be called ! ) . |
| 29 | I had , for once , no official papers to read and picked it up to read in the tram . |