Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 2 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 3 | He seemed to like the easy life down there in Alba , or feasting with Popes and with Emperors further south . |
| 4 | The Governor turned to lead the small procession out . |
| 5 | Inevitably this began to attract the foreign fleets back to the Klondyke trade . |
| 6 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 7 | He did not attempt the removal of the pyjama jacket , but suddenly stood up and began to pull the red trousers down and get them off ; and it seemed that Patrick , shifting very slightly , assisted the operation , his eyes now moving in awareness of what Marcus was doing . |
| 8 | ’ She began to draw the other curtains back . |
| 9 | Despite this relatively small cost the Reagan Administration was encouraged to seek further savings and decided to put the whole operation out to private tender ( reported in the TES , 28 October , 1982 , p.12 ) . |
| 10 | During the tests , however , a large amount of the water from the reservoir was lost and the pressure needed to force the hot water back to the surface was higher than expected . |
| 11 | He eventually decided to take the latest letter round to the proper 27 The Grove . |
| 12 | Well , I had moments of despair when I intended to shoot myself , but in the end I decided to bring the mad woman back to Thornfield Hall , where nobody knew that we were married . |
| 13 | Marriage was forbidden in their contracts too , but so many of the so-called babes broke the rule during the season that Amy found it impossible to replace them ; not having a large pool of dancers back in Britain she decided to bring the unmarried ones back after the first year 's contract was completed . |
| 14 | Christina helped her , and eventually they managed to get the tiny bikini back into place . |
| 15 | I am particularly pleased that Aunt Alice managed to make the long journey down to Surrey from Aberdeen for this occasion , and we are all delighted that Annabelle 's sister , Sharon , flew all the way from Australia to join us and be such a charming bridesmaid . |
| 16 | It was usually a fortnight ; she liked to see the New Year in . |
| 17 | To help absorb the effects , BP set up a company called D'Arcy Developments , which aimed to help the unemployed set up in business . |
| 18 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 19 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 20 | I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married . |
| 21 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 22 | The boxer : the end of the round , the bell went , his seconds had put down his stool , he was there to sit , and his opponent had to walk the whole way back to his own corner . |
| 23 | So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock . |
| 24 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 25 | The Long family continued to run the latter mill up to the end of the 19th century , hut by 1870 New Mills had been taken over and substantially reorganised by Tubbs and Lewis , who converted it to production of elasticated fabric . |
| 26 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 27 | Then I had to place the silver-coloured piece on to the needle heads with the latches open and draw the knitting towards me so that the latches closed and the knitting slid on to the silver piece . |
| 28 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 29 | Certain things were asserted beyond peradventure : namely , that we had to get the public-sector borrowing-requirement down , because if it went up or stayed up it would keep interest rates up . |
| 30 | Though the groom looked as if he longed to get the whole thing over and done with , he obeyed the dictates of tradition and refused . |