Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’
2 what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see
3 I 've got to go up the town , like
4 " I 've got to give up the job .
5 ‘ We 've got to sort out the balance between club and country because it 's very important to both sets of managers .
6 While they were looking round the garden I you 've got to get out the shower quick .
7 But you 've got to check out the odds .
8 No , we 've got to look down the race-card for some attractive , available , acquiescent filly — and the likeliest filly is surely — ’
9 The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage .
10 Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine .
11 And we 've attempted to cost out the work that 's done against the resources .
12 " They 've gone to turn out the Owsla , and then we 'll be for it right enough . "
13 Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together .
14 I take it you 've managed to staighten out the wrinkles in your own affairs , then ? ’
15 How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever .
16 Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself .
17 But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language .
18 All but two of the closed institutions in Rhode Island have applied to join either the FDIC 's scheme or a parallel one run by the National Credit Union Administration .
19 Disney have applied to produce both the opening and closing ceremonies of the tournament .
20 Over the past chapters , I have sought to show how the combination of broken homes , disturbed domestic backgrounds and lack of a full understanding of the needs and implications of formal education create a family environment unsuited to the requirements of black youth in British education .
21 But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer .
22 None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition .
23 Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy .
24 As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain .
25 Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches .
26 I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside .
27 For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation .
28 So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts .
29 In return for the aid , the Bulgarian authorities have agreed to close down the plant 's four 440-megawatt pressurized water reactors , which lack containment facilities to enclose them in case of an accident , as soon as financially possible , perhaps by 1998 .
30 Contractors Bernhards Rugby Sports Services have agreed to carry out the repairs at no extra cost to the local authority , said a council spokesman .
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