Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 32 | And yet , what is required , if teachers are ever to enjoy the prestige of true professionals , is to encourage them to reach out into the society they are there to serve , rather than for them to retreat behind their school walls . |
| 33 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 34 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 35 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 36 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 37 | Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad . |
| 38 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 39 | With relegation now a virtual certainty , Hankin has nothing to lose by including the likes of Reed , to prepare for next season . |
| 40 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 41 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 42 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 43 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 44 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
| 45 | Springsteen tested it for comfort , then hid under the low coffee table , partly because it 's the only table I have and partly because it 's the ideal place to ambush somebody coming out of the bedroom with no shoes on . |
| 46 | Hrun kicked away and scrambled to his feet , to find himself looking up into the wild horse-face of the dragon , its nostrils distended . |
| 47 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 48 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 49 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 50 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 51 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 52 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 53 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 54 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |
| 55 | Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume . |
| 56 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 57 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 58 | Lee knocked again , and this time the door was immediately opened and he found himself staring down into the large black barrels of a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 59 | And even as he gave up , as he let himself lean back against the wall , he was holding on , knowing he had backed down and it was over , but doing it gradually so we would n't see the change come over him . |
| 60 | How d' ya get on at the dentist ? |