Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 2 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 3 | Their parents are the ones who send them off to school and say , just do your best . |
| 4 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 5 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
| 6 | Oh you see if they want her back to testing they 've got ta pay for the resource to er for us to , to , to recruit somebody else in the meantime . |
| 7 | He would say he 'd sent one off but it probably would n't arrive for months , you know what they do with holiday mail , fly it out to sea and drop it in . |
| 8 | Yeah , because they put them through to crime prevention department , |
| 9 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 10 | Immediate post-operative speech was limited to " yes ' and " no " but after two weeks the patient was able to say " no , I do n't want any " and " put me back to bed " . |
| 11 | It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one . |
| 12 | er , er , alright mummy 's going to see if your porridge is , cooled down a bit , oh you just do it , put you out to grass I think |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Eve had said not only was she going to be free for lunch , she would meet Benny off the bus and walk her up to University College . |
| 15 | Put him out to work : that would school him . |
| 16 | They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ . |
| 17 | Put it down to exhaustion after too much cricket ! |
| 18 | They put it down to indecision and the overwhelming charms of both suitors . |
| 19 | Put it down to luck . |
| 20 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 21 | Put it back to fibre , go back to your bit on fibre |
| 22 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 23 | Now this is where you go to the branch , and the branch management team stand up and bring you up to date with everything that 's happening in the company with product changes , legislation changes , yes , some of it 's boring , but it 's information you 've got to have . |
| 24 | Then shower — ‘ Acqua Fredda ’ , cold spray to tone and give elasticity to the skin and bring you down to earth . |
| 25 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 26 | There are so many in our pews who play at worship ; who go to church but never truly open themselves up to power of God 's Spirit . |
| 27 | Well you get them up to stage one fairly quickly , it 's the stage two is n't it . |
| 28 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 29 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 30 | refer him refer him back to Office Services . |