Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agreed to purchase one machine initially , JF to be responsible for booking it out to Garden Departments . |
| 2 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 3 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 4 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 5 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 6 | Nevertheless , she was both surprised and touched when , with an obvious effort , he said that he would be in London at the weekend and wondered if he might have the pleasure of taking her out to lunch . |
| 7 | Instead of taking him straight to hospital , the gatekeeper has him brought up here . |
| 8 | If it already runs a back to nursing course then it will also have established a policy geared towards attracting you back to work . |
| 9 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 10 | In bringing it up to date and making it profitable , he had to tread warily , for although it was made up of land and property , it was essentially about people . |
| 11 | General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills . |
| 12 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Workshop . |
| 13 | Soldiers fired on Aristide 's home in the poor suburb of Plains de Cul-de-Sac , where he continued to live , killing his security chief before leading him away to army headquarters . |
| 14 | We follow his car as it winds through the hollows and around the hills until we reach the Moss No.3 Preparation Plant where the Pittston Company cleans and grades its coal before moving it out to power stations or abroad . |
| 15 | Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but knowing you , if you go over your limit we 'll have to tie you down before carrying you upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Responsibility means accepting on assignment , being personally committed to seeing it through to success and , if necessary , being prepared to accept the consequences of failure . |
| 18 | Laura found enormous fulfilment in discovering old print references and Brian Jones , a soft-spoken , young artist who had recently joined her design team in Carno , proved adept at transferring them on to fabric . |
| 19 | Huxtable also carried out experiments to test the possibilities of disposing of urban sewage by pumping it on to farm land . |
| 20 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 21 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |