Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 2 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 3 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 4 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 5 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 6 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 7 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 8 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 9 | Our engineer friends had collected crusty rolls from the dining room and , after a few drinks themselves , had set out to experiment with the sea-gulls ' capacity for whiskey . |
| 10 | Anyway things got quite hot and eventually one of the guides was sent over to talk to the Indians and the word came back that they would n't share their camp with us anyway , which is quite funny I suppose . |
| 11 | The windows to either side had been thrown wide as well , and the ends of the tattered old curtains had blown out to hang over the sills . |