Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 2 | Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Was there a lot of people who came to work here in the fishing town . |
| 5 | Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air : Would we have been better off without Home Rule ? |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed to turn out in the end that the American negotiator did n't have any flexibility and remained on the crucial issues unmoved . ’ |
| 7 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 8 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 9 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 10 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 11 | His quiet rage about the papers , and the idiots who paid good money for them , grew more intense as he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant at the Financial Times . |
| 12 | His hat tipped off and began to bowl away in the wind . |
| 13 | Unemployment , which fell from 9.3 per cent in 1989 to 8.8 per cent in 1990 , also began to increase again in a country still suffering from long-term unemployment and labour immobility . |
| 14 | If a man has a daughter she must be properly dressed , married at a reasonable age , taught to behave modestly in the presence of strangers . |
| 15 | She began to scrabble about in the dirt . |
| 16 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 17 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 18 | This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week . |
| 19 | So he gathered around him a group who began to pray regularly in the name of Isa Masih , Jesus the Messiah . |
| 20 | A small pulse began to throb erratically in the hollow of her throat and she ruefully decided that she just was n't used to waking up and being confronted with a virile man in the process of getting dressed . |
| 21 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 22 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 23 | Or perhaps you started to work out in the gym round the corner from the office . |
| 24 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
| 25 | So this person thought he was terribly towards the electricity board , and I needed to get through in an emergency , and you ca n't . |
| 26 | She went to sit stiffly in the stern as they nosed cautiously out through the ranks of yachts , and then through the litter of fishing-boats , the bright Phoenician ‘ Eye of Osiris ’ painted on their bows , superstitiously warding off evil . |
| 27 | He put the journal on Alexandra 's lap and went to sit down in the chair beside hers . |
| 28 | I ironed my big net here and it meant to go up in the window there . |
| 29 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |
| 30 | She meant to get on in the world . |