Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 3 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 4 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 6 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 7 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 10 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 11 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 12 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 13 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 15 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 16 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 17 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 18 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 19 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 20 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 21 | The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side . |
| 22 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 23 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 24 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 25 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 26 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 27 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 28 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 29 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 30 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |