Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 5 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 7 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 8 | What else do I need to consider along with the staff ? |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 11 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 14 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 17 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
| 18 | When I think of my past blunders here , I want to turn round at the airport and catch the next plane home . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 23 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 24 | caught on one and I want to ring out in the other at the same time I can use it . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's face it , the Olympics are only once every four years and I want to stay on until the end . ’ |
| 28 | I want to step back into the line . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I love rap but in the future I want to get back to the funk . |