Example sentences of "[verb] forgotten [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his eagerness to depict the cloudy psychology of an adolescent , Motion has forgotten to give the boy a personality . |
| 2 | But he says : ‘ He has lost touch with something wonderful — he has forgotten to let the child within him take flight . |
| 3 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 4 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
| 5 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
| 6 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 7 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 8 | Oh I 've got a horrible feeling I 've forgotten to put the milk in the fridge . |
| 9 | A good painting day , and you find your paint in the shed , but , oh dear , you 've forgotten to clean the paint brushes again . |
| 10 | And please , if you come up to the door and the times of opening says closed on there , we 're not closed , it 's just sometimes we 've forgotten to change the closed to open . |
| 11 | How many times have you reached the top of a ladder , only to find that you 've forgotten to bring the power drill up with you ? |
| 12 | That I l I 've forgotten to bring the other work . |
| 13 | The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! |
| 14 | Gustave , eager and clumsy as he was , had forgotten to smooth the stem of the rose . |
| 15 | Red-faced check-in staff were forced to explain to the frustrated passengers that engineers at Glasgow Airport had forgotten to replace the seats in the Twin Otter aircraft used for the inter-islands service . |
| 16 | I had forgotten to turn the carriage release back to N . |
| 17 | I will always remember undoing that first roller — I had forgotten to put the neutraliser on , it looked like a nightmare and all my mates were calling me poodle head . |
| 18 | Shortly after the First World War the firm had occasion to make a loan of £27,000 — for the crew of a cruiser that sailed into Portsmouth Harbour with paying-off pennant flying , only to find that someone had forgotten to order the cash . |
| 19 | The first discovery she had made on return was that she had forgotten to take the cheesecake out of the freezer . |
| 20 | I do n't trust myself and , apart from Benjamin , I certainly did n't trust anyone else yet I had forgotten to take the key down with me . |
| 21 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said the couple , who lived at the house in Brankin Road , Darlington , had forgotten to shut the front door when they went to bed that night . |
| 22 | Too late I realised I had forgotten to remove the plastic bird . |
| 23 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 24 | The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose , bounced against the side of a bridge and then ricocheted across to our son 's lane , killing him instantly . |
| 25 | The day before we were going to fly we were putting the airplane together — it was a Sunday — and we found out that we had forgotten to make the flanges that held the tailpipe to the airplane . |
| 26 | Most children begin Primary School at five or even just before , but Matilda 's parents , who were n't very concerned one way or the other about their daughter 's education , had forgotten to make the proper arrangements in advance . |
| 27 | Staff had forgotten to add the word ‘ imitation ’ to the description of the £3.50 ear-rings . |
| 28 | They used to go all the way out to these erm Searchlight Stations and erm they used to , very often they , they were situated in a , in a sort of pit in a dug out and erm when they arrived of course er the Education Officer had forgotten to tell the , the troops that there was a lecture that they were supposed to attend and er nobody turned up . |
| 29 | They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand . |
| 30 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |