Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go after anything fancy , but somehow I seemed to keep muffing up the interviews . |
| 2 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 3 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 4 | I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets . |
| 5 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 6 | I did manage to sort out the food for tomorrow and |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 10 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 11 | I 've got to go up the town , like |
| 12 | " I 've got to give up the job . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I have finished reading out the list , I shall tap on the table . |
| 15 | In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Someone 's got to wipe out the graft and incompetence . |
| 18 | ‘ But with Helena away , someone 's got to try out the samples . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan . |
| 21 | In these circumstances they are more able to realise their true ideological potential , which seems to mean taking on the characteristics of the most rapacious forms of capitalist entrepreneurship . |
| 22 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 27 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 28 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 29 | Then he give up , he got , you know , older and we bought the pony off him and she was used to rounds , you see , and she was used to pulling , after you 'd started going down the Fen she knew all the places . |
| 30 | Children who came hoping to try out the latest Streetfighter games nearly ended up in street fights themselves . |