Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 2 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 3 | At last , just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry 's burrow , he saw him come out of his hole , followed by no less than three rabbits . |
| 4 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 5 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 7 | So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability . |
| 8 | You may like to know that CPRW has worked through Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link ( to which WWF UK provides grant aid ) to take up the threat to SSSIs with the Countryside Council for Wales . |
| 9 | How could History have failed to bring about an end to history ? |
| 10 | He is stable and , all being well , will remain so for some considerable period of time.5 The motive for turning off the ventilator in this situation may be evil , or it may be good , as , for example , in the case of involuntary euthanasia intended to bring about an end to misery and suffering . |