Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 2 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 3 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 4 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 5 | It disregards the net put there to discourage the heron , and I come down in the morning to find a dog-shaped depression in the mesh and all the fish having a nervous breakdown . |
| 6 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |