Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 2 | She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household . |
| 3 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |
| 4 | But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials . |
| 5 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 6 | Another wrote of ‘ a new resurgence of idolatrous religion ’ in which ‘ the church is valued , if it is valued at all , to the extent that it helps to shore up the values and culture of Thatcherism . ’ |
| 7 | The MMC has no power to enforce its recommendations ; action depends on the Secretary of State , if he wishes to follow up the recommendations . |
| 8 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |