Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 2 | ‘ John will do it ; you 'll not be wanting to go back out in the rain . ’ |
| 3 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 4 | By this time , the whirligig of time had actually brought Hill back into fashion , and I hope that his shade had a cackle at the sight of the Thames executives attempting to clamber back on to the bandwagon . |
| 5 | ‘ You did n't really think some sort of Grandson Richard , 39 , was going to swoop down out of the sky and carry us off to Florida , did you ? |
| 6 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 7 | You 've got to play down on to the ball . |
| 8 | and you 've got to get back down on the shop do it . |
| 9 | With his free hand he started shaking his wallet until the money began to fall out on to the desk . |
| 10 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 11 | He did n't have to be told why he should hurry — the sea was already beginning to trickle over on to the upper deck . |
| 12 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 13 | ‘ Up in the bloody rafters , ’ said Stone grimly ; he shivered , perhaps a response to the thoughts of having to go back up into the roof space , into the cold , cramped quarters . |
| 14 | She got to her feet and started to run back down to the temple . |
| 15 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 16 | The fourth man , Steve Hillen , was left ropeless and , after a shouted discussion in which the others offered to climb back up with the rope , he decided to down-climb , unroped . |
| 17 | Despite the pain , he managed to push up out of the water and roll with practised efficiency over the side , and in . |
| 18 | Eastwood admitted : ‘ I was upset at missing out in the World Cup final and really do want to get back on to the international scene as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Immediately the two youngsters had been forced to descend back down into the tunnel . |
| 20 | ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said . |
| 21 | Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere . |
| 22 | Vocalists had to bob down out of the way during instrumental breaks , and those unfamiliar with recording technique had to be man-handled by the recording director to bring them close to the horn on low notes and push them further away on high notes . |
| 23 | Yeah , probably , me and this other mate he 'd a , did a , I can , I can remember him saying something about I 'll race yeah , it , like I remember just remember him , me and him run running down ramps and stuff trying to get back down to the ground floor , so . |
| 24 | Some prostitutes say the big fines mean they have to go back out onto the streets to pay off their debts . |
| 25 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 26 | At West Kensington Lee wanted to get out on to the roof and sledge to Gloucester Road but Dean , who had assumed the position of expert adviser , said he was n't sure about the tunnels . |