Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] to [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 3 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , I better bring you up to date a bit . |
| 5 | In order to bring you up to date the items were prepared at very short notice . |
| 6 | The father replied , ‘ I am prepared to let you have ( the child ) and pay you up to £1 a week allowance for her providing you can prove that she will be well looked after and happy and also that she is allowed to decide for herself whether or not she wishes to come and live with you . ’ |
| 7 | A THERMOSTAT for you hot-water cylinder costs as little as £5 , but can save you up to £15 a year . |
| 8 | In addition to any lump sum benefit you receive , Accident Cashguard will pay you up to £80 a day for each day you spend in hospital , as a result of an accident , up to a maximum of 100 days . |
| 9 | Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish . |
| 10 | Whether Americans have more money than sense or are just plain lazy is hard to tell , but they pay A-1 and others like them up to $1,000 a time to take their automobiles from A to B. |
| 11 | I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week . |
| 12 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 13 | We chatted so much on that first date , and then Denise asked me out to dinner the next night . |
| 14 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 15 | As we shall see , these days the concept of parental responsibility seems to demand considerably more involvement in a child 's education than simply packing him or her off to school every day . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's sweet really , he 's taking her out to ram-raid a flower shop ’ |
| 17 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
| 18 | Little ball up to Speedy drops it off to Thomson a good through ball to a running forward Jochim . |
| 19 | Although the drawing made it back to civilisation the pickled head , along with the rest of the ship , was lost . |
| 20 | The evolution of sculpture through the sixth century , however , makes it hard to date the figures we are now considering before 600 and they might be well after . |
| 21 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 22 | Their writings and lectures offer a vision of salvation for troubled businesses , and their presence at seminars and conferences guarantees a rush for tickets at anything up to £800 a day . |
| 23 | This does not mean that you have to pay a whole team of specialists anything up to £600 a day each . |