Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] office " in BNC.
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| 1 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 2 | Wolverton had the opportunity of giving concrete expression to a gift from the Canadian Government to the Home Office ( Fire Office Division ) by way of the manufacture of 18 mobile kitchens constructed to standards laid down by the Home Office . |
| 3 | They must conform to the pattern and standard size laid down by the Post Office . |
| 4 | Replacing Norman Lamont at the Treasury with Kenneth Clarke , drafted in from the Home Office , may improve the government 's image . |
| 5 | Well , all those things had gone in the parcels , parcels that Kathleen had been obliged to carry down to the post office in five separate journeys , parcels that were heavy and had cost altogether two pounds four shillings to send . |
| 6 | I think it 'll have to go down to the post office , I 've write to Diane now |
| 7 | He next moved on to the buying office , a very important department in a company such as Cadbury 's where the skilful purchase of the ingredients that go into the products can have a crucial impact on the viability of the business . |
| 8 | Slip along to the mortuary office , would you , Sergeant , and see if you can get some cardboard boxes for the cartridges , and wrapping paper and string for the clothes , while I let the doctor know that the body is ready for him . " |
| 9 | Subsequently the efficiency unit was relocated in the Management and Personnel Office , but in 1983 — when Sir Robin Ibbs ( a former head of the CPRS and executive director of ICI ) succeeded Rayner as the Prime Minister 's Special Adviser on Efficiency — it was located physically in the Cabinet Office . |
| 10 | I was walking away from the post office when I heard someone running after me . |
| 11 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 12 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 13 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 14 | The British Crime Survey of 1983 , a research project carried out by the Home Office , is a recent example of how victim and self-report studies can be used to attempt to get round the problems of and deficiencies with the official criminal statistics . |
| 15 | The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 . |
| 16 | That determination process is carried out by the Home Office and the adjudication tribunal . |
| 17 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 18 | A small friendly old pub pleasantly furnished and discreetly tucked away behind The Scotsman office . |
| 19 | A similar move for this year was turned down by the Home Office . |
| 20 | A similar move for this year was turned down by the Home Office . |
| 21 | I would make myself some tea , I decided as I packed away my papers , then walk over to the post office to make my call to Crispin . |
| 22 | The Inner Circle of the Brotherhood broke up , scraping back chairs and muttering to one another as they filed out of the Guild Office . |
| 23 | Moran came back from the post office to tell them that Annie and Lizzie had been singing their praises . |
| 24 | Bombed out at the box office , I remember that . ’ |
| 25 | She would have liked the brune he offered her , but could n't cope with the tape-recorder , the paper with the questions written out in the Blot office , the unfamiliarity of speaking French after an interval , as well as Meursault 's cult reputation , all at the same time as smoking . |
| 26 | I walk back to the Cabinet Office . |
| 27 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 28 | Registered mail has to be handed in to the post office , which issues an official receipt . |
| 29 | Registered letter envelopes in different sizes can be obtained from the post office , or a stout envelope or package can be used by drawing blue lines across the face before it is handed in to the post office . |
| 30 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |