Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 2 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 3 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 9 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 10 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 18 | He pays the small amount and in fact I keep on meaning at the back of my brain to get hold of him and say has he been paying it . |
| 19 | I went round commiserating with the ones I knew , pointing out that if the lady with the bosom was as late as she normally was , the reception would undoubtedly extend into licensing hours . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | So I went over to knock on the door . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 24 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 25 | I went back to look through the view-panel , an felt my stomach go into zerograv . |
| 26 | I kept on listening to the show . |
| 27 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 28 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 29 | I carry on walking down the street , careful not to bump into people so I do n't fall over again . |
| 30 | I carry on talking with the same chattiness and speed that got Jane Austen 's heroines into trouble . |