Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 2 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 3 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 4 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 5 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 6 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 7 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 8 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 9 | Why , I 'm going to do what I set out to do at the start — I 'm going to make sure that bastard marries you ! ’ |
| 10 | I set out to get inside the heads of gynaecologists , but what remains in my head is the freeze-frame of that young women with her legs held apart , unconscious , still unaware of a verdict which is likely to affect her whole life . |
| 11 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 12 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 13 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 14 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 15 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 16 | So I went over to knock on the door . |
| 17 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 18 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 19 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 20 | I went back to look through the view-panel , an felt my stomach go into zerograv . |
| 21 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 22 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 23 | ‘ The dangerous dreamed melon of the sage ’ which turned out to come from the dream of Descartes . |
| 24 | Yet this paper led to our century 's great revolution in astronomy , for here an American engineer , Karl Jansky , announced his detection of ‘ static ’ , which turned out to come from the sky . |
| 25 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 26 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 27 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 28 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 29 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 30 | As usual , she strolled over to drink in the view — mistress of all she surveyed . |