Example sentences of "[noun sg] to clean the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those who shared , all except one made some attempt to clean the syringe and 83% always cleaned shared equipment . |
| 2 | Use sand-paper to clean the sawcuts and also to radius off the edges of the spar ends . |
| 3 | Oh the , sprouts got you in the bath , went to and er kitchen to clean the sprouts , chuck them in a bowl I thought that 's funny , I did n't chuck that one in there ! |
| 4 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 5 | This also gives you the opportunity to clean the gold edge connector contacts of the boards with an alcohol based cleaning solution . |
| 6 | Use Mangers ' Stainex to clean the scale , following the instructions on the pack . |
| 7 | The patient and carer might also need a home help to clean the house or flat , or the social worker may call in ‘ care assistants ’ , who are trained in very basic nursing skills , if the patient is too heavy for the carer to handle and move about alone . |
| 8 | Tony Dobson was found dead in the yard at Roundhill Farm , Roundhill Road , near Hurworth , where he often used steam equipment to clean the Volvo articulated lorry . |
| 9 | I wish I 'd stayed at home to clean the oven after all . |
| 10 | We have a sorbet to clean the palate and on to salmon mousse . |
| 11 | And your job to clean the bells , keep them clear , while he 's chopping his coal out and that and you 'll be alright . |
| 12 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 13 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 14 | It is completely and increasingly ‘ normal ’ for soldiers to break into houses and mix food with cement ; to leave excrement lying around ; to turn the male population out in the middle of the night to clean the streets and sprinkle them with rose water . |
| 15 | MARCO VAN BASTEN , AC Milan 's European Footballer of the Year , yesterday had an operation in a Swiss clinic to clean the cartilage in his right ankle and is likely to be out of action for about three months . |
| 16 | Takes a lot to clean the place up . |
| 17 | it has the potential to clean the subsurface more thoroughly than other schemes , because the microorganisms may be in intimate contact with all parts of the aquifer , both solid and liquid . |
| 18 | When considering the regulations for set-aside , which is a very valuable tool in the present negotiations , will the Minister make them rather more positive by enabling farmers who have land set aside — especially , perhaps , for one year — to use the year to clean the land rather than merely to cut it ? |
| 19 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 20 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 21 | Castors , as well as being a straightforward mobility device , also help with kitchen hygiene when it is time to clean the floor . |
| 22 | When civilization was no better than barbarism , the whole experiment of humanity was at an end , and it was time to clean the slate . |
| 23 | She returned to the present , replaced the cleaned pail , the soap , the brush and the swab beside the pump in the lean-to outhouse at the back — it stood in a small soot-encrusted yard where a few fearless London sparrows frequently gathered — and returned to the house to clean the surgery . |