Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 2 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 3 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 4 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 5 | You will need to be methodical and able to communicate effectively with the ability to operate largely unsupervised . |
| 6 | Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution . |
| 7 | Mr Thomas stressed that this is the area that WACC-Asia needs to concentrate on in the months to come . |
| 8 | Any licence holder wanting to open beyond those guideline hours will have to appear personally before the board to argue special circumstances . |
| 9 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 10 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 11 | But the plans came to nothing when council officers were unable to come up with the money to help host the event which runs from March 3–5 . |
| 12 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Crystal Palace winger John Salako may be forced to pull out of the squad to play Turkey with a knee injury . |
| 14 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 15 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 16 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
| 17 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 18 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 19 | The volume and quality of remotely-sensed data seem set to increase substantially in the years to come , and the manipulation and interpretation of remotely-sensed data will , correspondingly , become a valuable geographical skill . |
| 20 | It is a language that needs to be learned to communicate fully in the years to come . |
| 21 | However , if the culture is not conducive to effective risk management , engineers should not simply accept things as they are , but seek to work actively within the organisation to improve matters . |
| 22 | The tribunal interpreted the implied mobility clause in Mr Bowles 's contract that he could be sent to work anywhere in the UK to mean that he could ‘ ordinarily ’ be sent to work anywhere in the UK . |
| 23 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 24 | Three men were needed to do the actual fitting of the tyre : two holding the tyre after they had taken it out of the oven , and one with a bucket of water to pour on to the felloes to stop them from taking fire as the tyre was clamped on . |
| 25 | The baby 's attention is drawn to the potty before being placed on it : the aim was to teach the babies to reach out for the potty to indicate they wanted to use it . |
| 26 | After the main course but before the pudding , her parents had decided that they could not afford to wait forever for the sunshine to break through . |
| 27 | I positioned myself in the entrance to the doorway sufficiently enough to be able to see through the er the window we have in the shield erm to see quickly into the room to see er what 's in the room and if there are any persons in the room . |
| 28 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 29 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 30 | ‘ I have nearly been killed through having to walk on to the road to see whether it is clear , ’ he said . |