Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 2 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 're taking you down to the Pacific for a bathe , ’ I told her . |
| 4 | And you say , today we 're , tonight we 're talking you over to the hub and we 're going to show you all this , and I take them and get over there about ten o'clock , and we go along there to , to look at the , the slats and the trays and there are all these masters flying around being terribly excited about this , terrific noises , and they say , God this is great , but how many parcels will go through tonight ? |
| 5 | Tallis could not see clearly but he seemed to be pushing something on to the staff , working it round until , with a crack , it slid into position . |
| 6 | I 'm breaking it down to the cake again . |
| 7 | At the end of the day in any event the County Planning Committee if they accept my recommendation will be sending it off to the Department of the Environment . |
| 8 | ‘ Iris is all in and I 'm taking her back to the Lion d'Or for dinner . |
| 9 | Any minute and he would be inviting her through to the bedroom and urging her to call him Alexander ! |
| 10 | ‘ We came here the Saturday before last and won in the League , now we 're pleased to be taking them back to the Bridge this time . |
| 11 | I will tell my steward that I am taking you on to the staff as — ’ he paused for thought for a moment' — as a tax consultant . |
| 12 | ‘ We are taking him back to the institution . |
| 13 | When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’ |
| 14 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 15 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
| 16 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 17 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |
| 18 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 19 | And seventh note is the leading note because it 's leading you up to the tonic again . |
| 20 | The obvious answer is to draw it back to the side away from the corner , but this can create an unbalanced appearance . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's sending itself on to the Shuttle . |
| 22 | All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase . |
| 23 | What I 've done now is taken you through to the point where , we 're asking ourselves what is it that management make a mess of ? |
| 24 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 25 | we 've got a , got a picture of those just , er , with er you know with the flowers on , so be , really wan na is to make them back to the original , see they had nowt frames and I cut it up but |
| 26 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 27 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 28 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 29 | ‘ All he had to do was follow them back to the agency , come in as though wanting to book a holiday , and there was gullible little Hilary all ready and waiting to fall in love . |
| 30 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |