Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 2 | And secondly a lot of er a number of consultants want to leave their bonuses in to accrue during the year . |
| 3 | He took a deep breath , then another , like a diver about to plunge into the depths , and nodded . |
| 4 | ‘ Stay where you are , Judy ! ’ she cried , as she saw Judy on her hands and knees about to crawl under the wire to Mandy 's rescue . |
| 5 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 6 | He looked around and saw Pete about to go out the door . |
| 7 | Dear Lord , he can be stupid , thought Scarlet , as she saw Camille about to respond with the surprised gratification of a matador to whom the bull has blindly turned his flank . |
| 8 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 9 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 10 | Lucy says ’ when George died I phoned my agent and said give me three weeks off to get over the physical shock . |
| 11 | Phoebe dealt with Maggie 's immediate needs and took her trousers off to soak in the bathroom . |
| 12 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 13 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 14 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 15 | It 's a very stiff exam I must admit , when I look back on it , and we all had a a day off to go to the at or the Grammar school , sit this exam er and since I never heard anything I 'm assuming I failed . |
| 16 | I phoned up and I got phone up to ask for the information right ? |
| 17 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 18 | I allowed my eyes to travel slowly up the length of the chimney breast , tilting my head back to take in the upper reaches , and my hat fell off . |
| 19 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , with many teachers engaged in the fifty mile protest , hundreds of youngsters used their day out to protest at the green line barrier separating Greek and Turkish communities . |
| 21 | A wide range of support is available to assist existing exporters and businesses about to export for the first time . |
| 22 | There may be a second , or even a third rabbit about to emerge from the one hole and you must be ready to ensure that no opportunities are missed . |
| 23 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 24 | His fingers drew strands of hair out to glitter in the firelight . |
| 25 | ‘ If we put ten names in to speak against the motion , even that poor bugger Webb-Bowen will have to pick one of us . |
| 26 | Remember that even if the precinct appears brightly lit to the eye , your camcorder will probably be working flat out to expose for the wide shots . |
| 27 | When they were ready , send a messenger back to bring over the remainder , who would endeavour to ride on and past as silently as possible and form the barrier between town and castle . |
| 28 | Eskimos put their old people out to die on the ice . |
| 29 | After lunch , Faye had her nap , which had stretched to two hours now , as she was sleeping poorly at night , and after she woke she usually liked to have Belinda in to chat over the mid-afternoon snack . |
| 30 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |