Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 2 | He had men in Paris , Berlin , Rome , Belfast and elsewhere to search out the merchandise needed to satisfy the voracious appetite of the Chicago store and , by 1875 , was dispatching three-million-dollars worth of goods each year across the Atlantic . |
| 3 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 4 | They are happy to suspend disbelief for the season of goodwill and lustily to bawl out the carols with beery breath and watch dewy-eyed as the little ones do their stuff . |
| 5 | The Communists ' blatant use of the RPC to influence and later to break up the ILP naturally worsened relations between the ILP leaders and the Communists . |
| 6 | The trend towards tighter state budgets could be exploited to reduce the number of students in some over populated subjects and also to cut back the resources of non-productive researchers . |
| 7 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 8 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 9 | It took just over an hour to empty Wavebreaker of her garbage and dirty linen , and then to hook up the shoreside electricity and pump diesel and fresh water into her tanks . |
| 10 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 11 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 12 | But nowadays it tries hard and gracefully to live down the ferocities of its past . |
| 13 | He hurried back to the hotel , trying to rush but also to keep up the appearance of quiet dignity his employers would expect of him . |