Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 2 | I thought he came round to gloat and I was right . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , violence outside the Grunwick works rapidly escalated , culminating in a so-called ‘ day of action ’ ( 11 July 1977 ) when about 18,000 people turned up to picket and there was much fighting with the police , resulting in seventy arrests and several injuries . |
| 4 | ‘ I turned round to apologise and they were gone . |
| 5 | ‘ Last year , at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the first Frazier fight , you got up to speak and you ended up talking for probably ten minutes . |
| 6 | Paddy got up to help and we both crawled about ferreting in the sand . |
| 7 | He went down to protest and himself began to receive blows . |
| 8 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 9 | And they just could n't , he lost his job which is the same old story and er anyway they went back to visit and they kee they go back every two or three weeks to visit this house . |