Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 2 | And reluctantly MacArthur agreed to come and talk to the president . |
| 3 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 4 | That Nottinghamshire went on working reflects not simply the self-interest of its miners but more importantly the culture that their predecessors ( many of them their ancestors ) helped to create and transmit to the present . |
| 5 | The movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 , when they tried to live and work in the villages of Russia to spread the word and arouse revolution , was heroic but quixotic . |
| 6 | Now it seemed to come and go on the wind . |
| 7 | I can … ’ but the words were stopped in him and he seemed to suffocate and gasp with the sense of a power beyond the Cages that he had sensed briefly before . |
| 8 | Anna , knowing nothing of this , and battling to come to terms with the violence of her surroundings , while The Friends seemed to expand and achieve by the month , succumbed every so often to the demon envy . |
| 9 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 10 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 11 | Somewhere beyond , on the forecourt perhaps , orange flame seemed to splutter and flare in the darkness . |
| 12 | Fronds of bladderwrack began to stiffen and blanch in the sun . |
| 13 | ‘ But surely , not now ! ’ thought Creggan as , to his astonishment , Woil began to peck and ferret among the rubbish in the bin , ignoring the approaching man altogether . |
| 14 | The wind rose and the long grass began to flutter and ripple in the dip between them . |
| 15 | Its edges , at first three-dimensionally sharp and rigid , after a while began to wave and shimmer on the red heat of the sand . |
| 16 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 17 | He began to run and jump across the white rocks , exhilarated by the emptiness all round . |
| 18 | The kid began to laugh and steam up the window-pane , then started slapping the glass with a tiny hand leaving greasy fingerprints . |
| 19 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 20 | The Danes also began to attack and raid along the Flemish and Frisian coasts , reaching as far south as the mouth of the Seine . |
| 21 | as if it were a natural follow-on from this behaviour , the earthen surfaces of the graves began to rise and fall like the chests of sleepers . |
| 22 | ‘ When I came here with my parents in 1974 and saw that most of the ‘ Australian ’ souvenirs were imported from Hong Kong and the Philippines , I decided to try and break into the market , ’ he recalled . |
| 23 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 24 | But this was not enough to keep away mosquitoes , which started to arrive and drift towards the flames . |
| 25 | When the pro-oralist John Howard succeeded Charles Baker at Doncaster upon the latter 's death , Kirk felt he needed to move and waited for the opportunity to do so . |
| 26 | ‘ Apparently he was having a race round the deck with one of his friends and managed to slip and fall down the stairs . ’ |
| 27 | Well , Yon Yonson took to drink and stayed in the pub until he 'd drunk up most of his grant . |
| 28 | In the last forty years of the nineteenth century three generations of artists chose to live and work in the area , including Daumier , Daubigny , Corot , Renoir , Cézanne , Berthe Morisot and Pissarro , not to mention Van Gogh , who died at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890 . |
| 29 | Hope flicked to alert and took in the scene : five other parties , all yielding the centre to the couple who occupied it with proprietorial ease ; several guides being consulted , some read from aloud , everywhere the men pointing , the indies dipping their heads to listen or lifting them to question , with seeming humility , the words of the scholars and their translators . |
| 30 | She went to the nearest Protestant school , which was over at Kilcock , and learned to read and write with the daughters of their friends . |