Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 32 | She did n't want to go back to the lies Kate told whenever she asked her what the matter was , to the telephone ringing and the queer , high-pitched voice insisting it was the box-office of the Essoldo Cinema . |
| 33 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 34 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 35 | Course it worried Ange look cos she do n't want to go back in the office like last time . |
| 36 | However , many carers may not have a great deal of energy left over for campaigning , and may simply want to go along to the group for support , advice and a break from usual responsibilities . |
| 37 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 38 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 41 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
| 42 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 43 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 44 | It 's reassuring to know that even beautiful actresses worry about what they 're gong to wear to go out in the evening . |
| 45 | HEAVYWEIGHTS , it is said , take a while to mature but tend to remain longer in the sport . |
| 46 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 47 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 48 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
| 49 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 50 | 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 … . |
| 51 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 52 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 53 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 54 | We do n't want to fall out with the villagers over this . |
| 55 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 56 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 57 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 58 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 59 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 60 | They tend to go always to the top of the |