Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 2 | As the flow of water changed rapidly from summer to winter the streams and rivers deposited their loads again , leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand in some places and fine mud in other places . |
| 3 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 4 | Atkins and his colleague had savagely threatened him against telling anyone , but he was influenced more by reluctance to distress the rest of his family as he assumed that they would be as helpless as himself . |
| 5 | But if the bulk of the CPP continues to reject the election result and refuses to take its seats in Cambodia 's assembly , the UN will have to come up with ways to winkle the party out of power . |
| 6 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
| 7 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 8 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 9 | From there , no doubt , he 'd gone straight to Hell ; but there were times when he and his wicked mistresses were still to be seen walking here , their shades drawn back from Hellfire to visit the scene of their sins . |
| 10 | I express to you the most earnest desire of my heart to be that prosperity and success in social and moral improvement may attend increasingly from year to year the progress of this library . |