Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked up as Corbett entered , smiled and half rose before slumping back into the seat again as if he really could not be bothered . |
| 2 | I did n't understand Ward 's behaviour , so I just concentrated on getting out of the city as fast as I could . |
| 3 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 4 | Any weaknesses were determinedly removed , settings were constantly corrected , refinements were built in , until the day came for handing over to the RNLI — Wednesday 15 May 1991 . |
| 5 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 6 | This provided a confidence that came from getting on with the job . ’ |
| 7 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't see why , ’ Whitlock replied without looking up from the grill . |
| 9 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 10 | This he achieved by getting along to the Frog and Ferret at about eleven each morning , where he spent hours in conversation with George ‘ This is My Coronary ’ Parker . |
| 11 | She escaped by getting out of the vehicle while it was moving . |
| 12 | Robertson did not hesitate , and dived overboard and swam out to the dinghy which he succeeded in getting back to the fishing boat for the crew to get off . |
| 13 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
| 14 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 15 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 16 | When Mrs Jones says : ‘ My Johnny is really a good boy but got to running around with the wrong bunch and got into trouble ’ , she is making a set of assumptions which , when spelled out more explicitly , constitute the foundations of an important school of thought in the scientific study of juvenile delinquency . |
| 17 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 18 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 19 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |
| 20 | Jonathan Russell , 27 , fell after climbing on to the battlements to take photographs . |
| 21 | ‘ My nickname was ‘ Rabbit ’ because of my prominent front teeth — so when we decided to get married , I instantly thought of dressing up as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland . |
| 22 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 23 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 24 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |
| 25 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 27 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 28 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 29 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 30 | Half of the secondees struggled with finding out about the nature of the job and how the administrative system worked . |