Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 members of the management want to buy out the firm to save it . |
| 2 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 3 | So despite the payment reinstatement of the sacked journalists is still no nearer but some intend to keep up the pressure to get their jobs back . |
| 4 | And just to actually formalise they 've laid out the plan to say that we are actually doing , we are aware that this does n't combine and we are doing something about it . |
| 5 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 6 | The only difference between what Daniel had to endure and what my children have endured is that I am still alive and have plucked up the courage to divorce my husband . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a double-action revolver , which means you have to pull back the hammer to cock it before firing . ’ |
| 8 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But people have such bad financial problems at the moment , they have to give up the chance to study and go for whatever will fill their families ' stomachs . ’ |
| 10 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 11 | I only have to switch on the news to hear things a whole lot crazier than that . ’ |
| 12 | An important influence over this change has come from the US , where shareholders have stepped up the pressure to conform to good community practice . |
| 13 | In fact the Council that have put up the money to buy Medley boat station was in fact the Oxford City Council , so it is actually slightly different |