Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
2 | if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it . |
3 | There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while . |
4 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
5 | you know try and get Sometimes in an examination they 'll give you funny numbers like two point five but they tend to work 'em out for you . |
6 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
7 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
8 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
9 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
10 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
11 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
12 | The other thing is to talk it over with your line manager , so that if you 've picked something up you want to implement yourself back at , in the workplace then |
13 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
14 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
15 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
16 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
17 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
18 | So now you want to unload her on to the wretched Miss Plimsoll in the top form where she will cause even more chaos ? ’ |
19 | ‘ Richardson wants to drive you out of all your strips . |
20 | Doctor what , if that happens Doctor says that the next time he wants to see us along with him . |
21 | They do not seek to drive anyone out of the Church . |
22 | At first I tried to write everything down in my notebook . |
23 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
24 | ‘ I do n't need to spell it out to you , ’ she said scornfully , ‘ but I will . |
25 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
26 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
27 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
28 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
29 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
30 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |