Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 2 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 3 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 4 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 5 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 6 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 7 | Well , a bit I intend carrying on as the parliamentary candidate and somebody had obviously asked Dave why it is something has nothing whatsoever to do with the constituency . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 10 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 11 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 12 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 13 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 14 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 15 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 16 | ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 21 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 22 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 23 | ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy . |
| 24 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 25 | I hate going out in the carriage , ’ I said quickly . |
| 26 | What else do I need to consider along with the staff ? |
| 27 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 28 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 29 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 30 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |