Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 3 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 4 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 5 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 6 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 7 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 8 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 9 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 10 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 11 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 12 | So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’ |
| 13 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 14 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd better go through to the sports field , ’ said Robert . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’ |
| 17 | We 'd better go back to the burrow . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd better go back to the car , ’ he announced , and , without more ado placed a hand beneath her elbow and guided her back to his car . |
| 20 | He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom . |
| 21 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 22 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 24 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 25 | and when it gets to the chasing teddy bears you 've got to run as fast as you can , so you 'd better move out of the way |
| 26 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 27 | You 'd better come back to the farmhouse too , Seb . |
| 28 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 29 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |