Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 3 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 13 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 18 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 19 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 20 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 21 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 22 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 23 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 24 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 25 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 27 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 28 | Yeah but that that is the Sunday thing that 's how I get muddled up with the date , but that 's on the same tape you see ? |
| 29 | ‘ They did , Michael , but they also liked the fact that our cellars connected with next door , which connected with next door to that , which I believe led out to the East River . ’ |
| 30 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |