Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [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 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I planned to stay there for the summer , and then learn how to be a better actress . |
| 5 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 6 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 8 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 11 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 14 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 15 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
| 16 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 17 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 18 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 19 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 20 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 21 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 22 | To harmonize my body language with Alison 's , I turned to look out of the window . |
| 23 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |
| 24 | The Felder started immediately , and I watched the revs climbing on the rev-counter until I began to roll forward into the open . |
| 25 | I began to climb back into the limo . |
| 26 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 27 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 28 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 29 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 30 | So I decided to go on to the council . |