Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 2 | I did manage to sort out the food for tomorrow and |
| 3 | And I thought to myself no I 'm not gon na go out , I did start to go out the park and I thought no . |
| 4 | I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 6 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 7 | I 've got to go up the town , like |
| 8 | " I 've got to give up the job . |
| 9 | If I do n't spot the trouble straight away , the knitting goes tight or the yarn snaps and it causes no end of frustration when I have to stop to sort out the mess . |
| 10 | In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender . |
| 11 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 12 | Someone 's got to wipe out the graft and incompetence . |
| 13 | ‘ But with Helena away , someone 's got to try out the samples . ’ |
| 14 | The two roads that go by way of Anglet , a suburb which has accumulated to fill in the gap between the two towns , are no better than functional . |
| 15 | Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan . |
| 16 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 17 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 18 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 19 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 20 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 21 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 22 | Children who came hoping to try out the latest Streetfighter games nearly ended up in street fights themselves . |
| 23 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 24 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 25 | Not that he 's the only climber who appears to wish to play down the education aspects of his past — amongst many others with whom you can have sport in this manner are Stephen Venables ( Charterhouse ) , our own Tom Prentice at Climber ( Harrow ) , or even Ed himself ( Uppingham ) . |
| 26 | Finally she felt compelled to pick up the conversation , make some pretence at normality . |
| 27 | However , for the best effect , you do need to work out the right size and shape for your arrangement , choose appropriate containers and know which colours of flowers go well together . |
| 28 | what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see |
| 29 | But you 've got to check out the odds . |
| 30 | While they were looking round the garden I you 've got to get out the shower quick . |