Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Comer had not managed to loosen the knot of the tie , though its ends floated wide , or to hoist off one of the regulation black shoes . |
| 2 | And to work out any of the volt or |
| 3 | And to catch out those in the financial and wider communities who encouraged them to do so . |
| 4 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 5 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |
| 6 | ‘ The Government is trying to promote small businesses and to cut out some of the bureaucracy and red tape which is strangling us . ’ |
| 7 | He did n't do very much wrong at the other holes , either , but to carve up one of the trickiest par-5s in an Open , to those figures , and with those conditions , well it showed how his game was at Troon in 1962 . |
| 8 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 9 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 10 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |