Example sentences of "tide [pron] over " in BNC.
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1 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
2 | This includes those who are temporarily between jobs and drawing unemployment benefit to tide them over until the new job is taken up . |
3 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
4 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
5 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
6 | And er to try and tide them over . |
7 | Erm to keep them to tide them over . |
8 | I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need . |
9 | Staff here are desperate for donations of both food and money to tide them over until the recession ends . |
10 | For example , during a recession , a large firm will commit itself to its suppliers and subcontractors for continued orders to tide them over . |
11 | If you lend me some to tide me over . ’ |
12 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
13 | I went to the National Gallery and offered to sell the two Paul Klees I had carried with me , to tide me over . |
14 | I will have wages to tide me over initially . ’ |
15 | A little to tide me over , I gather . ’ |
16 | It would n't be much , but would maybe tide me over till I could find something better . |
17 | Perhaps just for a while to tide you over a particularly bad crop of bills . |
18 | That will at least tide you over until better days , when they come . ’ |
19 | ‘ On your way then , lad , and I 'll offer you one thought to tide you over . |
20 | You may have to commit yourself to buying a new home before you have sold your existing one , in which case you may need to take out a bridging loan to tide you over until you sell . |
21 | However large or small your business operation , whether you manufacture goods or provide a service , there may be times when you need to borrow funds for the day-to-day financing of your working capital or to tide you over an unexpected cash flow problem . |
22 | ‘ Listen , Tippy , I 'll give you enough to tide you over . |
23 | ‘ Take this to tide you over . |
24 | Wo n't you let me give you some money -just to tide you over ? ’ |
25 | to tide you over till the morning |
26 | He cadged fivers off various old school friends and workmates to tide him over until he could get to the bank . |
27 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
28 | The one marginal exception is his only excursion into ghost-writing , A Yankee Looks at Cricket , written with Philadelphian cricket fanatic Henry Sayen in 1956 , which helped tide him over a tricky period between jobs . |
29 | The decision to go north found the duke short of money and he wrote to Sir John Say for a loan of £100 to tide him over . |
30 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |