Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 2 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 3 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 4 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 5 | He dropped ice into his glass and crossed to sink down into one of the nearby sofas . |
| 6 | Er an and the the bloke who did it erm has got to go down as one of the ratbags of the year . |
| 7 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 8 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 9 | I 'm going to wrap up in one of the linens . |
| 10 | It was a huge thing , hanging in the air from a beam , its duct turned to point down over one of the stalls . |
| 11 | I had finally resolved to stage a roof coup , to climb on to one of the forbidden roofs iii the probably vain hope that the prospect of being left behind might change Melinda 's views , when suddenly a metal door opened and arms reached down to pull us up . |
| 12 | Rachel gave the girl some analgesics for her pain , persuaded her to lie down on one of the beds then pulled the curtains around her to enable her to rest . |
| 13 | Were you multiplying two by three , or were you multiplying something else by three to finish up with sixteen to the three quarters ? |
| 14 | Hundreds of vintage tractor enthusiasts are expected to turn up to one of the biggest auctions of its kind . |
| 15 | Haunted by a fear that I have forgotten to stock up on one of the essentials of life but can not think what it is . |
| 16 | Occasionally she would allow her gaze to drop on to one of the other patients with a look which Theodora could only interpret as startled amazement . |
| 17 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Chefs do n't want to get up at six in the morning to go to Docklands , ’ Mr Moran says . |
| 19 | ‘ The weather was really hot and we had to get up at six in the morning to do the filming , ’ he recalls . |
| 20 | The 21-year-old from Darlington says : ‘ I used to get up at five in the morning and go cleaning at Presto , then I 'd work in a chippy from eleven to two and then later I 'd do some child-minding . |
| 21 | At ten o'clock that same night , while Suor Eusebia was engaging the carabinieri in conversation , he would have to get out of one of the upper windows of the building and slide down a drainpipe . |
| 22 | Most were allowed to stay out till 11.30 during the week and as late as they liked at weekends . |
| 23 | The unique feature is that social workers were given authority to spend up to two-thirds of the cost of a place in residential care in order to support an old person in his or her own home , who would otherwise require such a place . |
| 24 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has plans to move up to 26 of the rhinos to two new reserves in Indonesia , and to the USA , where a captive breeding programme will be undertaken . |
| 25 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |