Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 2 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 3 | ‘ Hear , hear , ’ they said uneasily , raising glasses , and Lydia began to coax everyone through to dinner . |
| 4 | We need somebody on to collect glasses . |
| 5 | Thus it involves massive amounts of reporting , in person or on paper , to keep everyone up to date : |
| 6 | More generally we will keep everyone up to date with progress on the programme through NOTES . |
| 7 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 8 | leading one on to worship |
| 9 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 10 | It really does bring everything down to earth . |
| 11 | Why does contemplating the end of an era feel so painfully like waving a loved one off to war ? |
| 12 | Something new , something up to date was needed . |
| 13 | ‘ We are trying to bring everything up to date , ’ says Mr Lawrence , ‘ the way we sell , who we sell through , what we sell , the emphasis of core values all the way through to transparency of financial reporting . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Getting everything up to date before you depart ? |
| 15 | ‘ They 're doing everything they can under the legislation to bring everything up to date , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The owner has spared no money or effort in keeping everything up to class A1 condition . |
| 17 | ‘ You keep bringing everything back to money . ’ |
| 18 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |
| 19 | Wanting a context for their work , many feel a conscious need ‘ to give something back to society ’ , to justify a ‘ self-indulgent ’ pastime , avoiding what they see as the stereotype of the male artist as self-obsessed . |
| 20 | Untypically for his age , Chris preferred to play most of his shots to the off rather than drag everything round to leg . |
| 21 | But , but i i i i if you went yes I mean er in a sense that th there are one possibility is to redistribute the land , and do that equally , but if , if there , there was not enough land to bring everybody up to subsistence level er I mean some were , the , the argument is there was n't enough land to bring everybody up to a landlord 's subsistence level . |
| 22 | We have to get everybody back to man these ramparts . ’ |