Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 32 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 33 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 34 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
| 35 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 36 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
| 37 | When I think of my past blunders here , I want to turn round at the airport and catch the next plane home . |
| 38 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 39 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 40 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 41 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 42 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 43 | caught on one and I want to ring out in the other at the same time I can use it . |
| 44 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 45 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 46 | ‘ Let's face it , the Olympics are only once every four years and I want to stay on until the end . ’ |
| 47 | I want to step back into the line . |
| 48 | If it is , it none the less dates back explicitly to 1961 when he played Littlechap , the Everyman figure who makes it big , in Stop The World — I Want To Get Off at the Queen 's . |
| 49 | I love rap but in the future I want to get back to the funk . |
| 50 | Stich said later : ‘ I want to get back to the world top 10 — that 's my goal . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ Thanks anyway but I want to get back to the hotel and soak my shoulder in a hot bath . |
| 52 | Unless there are any snags , I want to get back to the workshop . |
| 53 | I want to get back to the farm . |
| 54 | ‘ I want to get back to the office . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 56 | When it goes past I want to run over to the other side of the bridge , but there 's too much traffic to cross the road , so I just watch the trail of water it leaves behind . |
| 57 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 58 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 59 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 60 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |