Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [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 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 After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone .
4 I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent .
5 If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway .
6 Well , a bit I intend carrying on as the parliamentary candidate and somebody had obviously asked Dave why it is something has nothing whatsoever to do with the constituency .
7 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 .
8 Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair .
9 The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet .
10 ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter .
11 If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really .
12 When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’
13 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 ] .
14 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 .
15 I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’
16 ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’
17 ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’
18 I got held up at the last minute . ’
19 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
20 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
21 I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying .
22 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 .
23 I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while …
24 I hate going out in the carriage , ’ I said quickly .
25 What else do I need to consider along with the staff ?
26 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
27 I tried to sit down on the bed and wait .
28 I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn .
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