Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [verb] " 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 People , as we will see and know already ( see Stewart 1987 ) , largely choose to take heroin and decide to take on the lifestyle associated with it .
5 ‘ It 's a double-action revolver , which means you have to pull back the hammer to cock it before firing . ’
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 I only have to switch on the news to hear things a whole lot crazier than that . ’
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