Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | From there we had to shuffle down the underground to Davenports Magic Shop , where Paul had been lured in order to buy an ancient Chinese trick , hence the coolie gear . |
| 3 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 4 | Occasionally you had to spell out the name to tourists to avoid any needless confusion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Financial Times of June 28 described this review clause " ploy " as designed " to hold out the hope to countries which feel their aspirations unsatisfied in this constitutional revision that they may do better next time " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 13 | We have met the terms of the loan , ’ Mr Cross said , answering widespread speculation that Mr Bond , whose commercial empire is troubled , had been forced to hand over the painting to Sotheby 's for resale . |
| 14 | UN-sponsored talks had begun on June 2 , when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) leadership called for Bosnian Serb leaders to stop the bombardment of Sarajevo and to hand over the airport to UN control . |
| 15 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 16 | ‘ Royal ’ arrest An Australian farmer and his wife who declared their Queensland farm an independent country , calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough , have been arrested for defying a court order to hand over the property to receivers . |
| 17 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |