Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to go down the tip later on again . |
| 2 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 3 | Inside , the surgeons , surrounded by dustbins filled with lopped-off limbs , did the best they could to patch up the ghastly wounds caused by the huge shell splinters . |
| 4 | The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants , using his great wealth to bribe informers . |
| 5 | Anne and Mrs Bennet did what they could to clear up the house . |
| 6 | Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball . |
| 7 | Talbot plotted against Errington and did all he could to bring about the coadjutor 's eventual resignation . |
| 8 | But there was a big door , well I used to get in the entry from , with an ordinary key , used to go up the b up the op big opening and open the big doors from the insides , you see what I mean , for the rest to come in . |
| 9 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
| 10 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 11 | Now the , round the backyard , used to go down the yard , and on the left hand side of the yard there was a , a , a , a toilet and a coal house . |
| 12 | I used to go down the villages . |
| 13 | It 's probably a similar situation at er , the last company I worked for , used to have me , me lunch hour , I used to go down the swimming baths and do two and half hours there . |
| 14 | when you , when you used to go down the beach and do fucking moonies with all the |
| 15 | They 've always been a precarious , yeah , I mean me dad used to work down the shipyard and you know you 'd live in fear for when they would close the yards down |
| 16 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 17 | We did , we did the Merry Widow and we had , th the Gazettes they 're called , th the Gazettes and er they used to come out the wings with all this , you know ? |
| 18 | We 'll go out for a drive probably out an hour , whereas years ago the horse used to come out the stable at seven in the morning he would n't go back till probably five at night . |
| 19 | He said Munn drove his car during the robbery , provided one of the robbers with a sledge hammer , used to smash down the bank counter screens , and he also knew the other had an imitation gun . |
| 20 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 21 | How we used to ferret out the info , gradually piecing together the clues . |
| 22 | The small amount of finance used to set up the company came from Garrett 's personal savings . |
| 23 | You may have noticed that the dialogue boxes used to set up the Program Groups and Program Item both have a Password option . |
| 24 | Check that the user access file used to set up the necessary logical name has been invoked . |
| 25 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 26 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 27 | THE propaganda machine which used to crank out the political fantasies of East European communists is being put to work turning out mushy romance novels . |
| 28 | not so used now , though once used to cover up the flavour of unpleasant medicines |
| 29 | These were in turn used to gross up the export values declared by respondents to estimates of exports for all exporters in Scotland . |
| 30 | I used to walk around the place , thinking about it . |