Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited .
2 Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day .
3 Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time .
4 There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys .
5 I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval .
6 ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice .
7 Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’
8 The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards .
9 Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail .
10 Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely .
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