Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 2 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 3 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 4 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
| 5 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 6 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 7 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 8 | The negotiators agreed to meet again before the end of November , and although no date was arranged for the holding of full normalization talks , it was suggested that these might begin before the end of 1990 . |
| 9 | Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future . |
| 10 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 11 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 12 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 13 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 14 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 15 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 16 | The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side . |
| 17 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 18 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 19 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 20 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 21 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 22 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 23 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 24 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 25 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
| 26 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 27 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 28 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 29 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 30 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |