Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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31 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
32 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
33 | It 's reassuring to know that even beautiful actresses worry about what they 're gong to wear to go out in the evening . |
34 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
35 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
36 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
37 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
38 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
39 | We do n't want to fall out with the villagers over this . |
40 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
41 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
42 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
43 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
44 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
45 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
46 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
47 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
48 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
49 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
50 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
51 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
52 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
53 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
54 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
55 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
56 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
57 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
58 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
59 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
60 | You do not want to find out in the interview itself that the skirt rides up disconcertingly high when you sit down or that the front gapes open when you lean forward to talk . |