Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 2 | You got off the hook very easily there , Ian . |
| 3 | I just got off the plane here and fell in love with the place , so I stayed . |
| 4 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 5 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 6 | AN Anglo-Russian company got off the ground yesterday to run production and sales of a Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev airliner . |
| 7 | They had heard about the blessing there , they had heard about the healing , the deliverance , the joy , yet nobody had received the Holy Spirit . |
| 8 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 9 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 10 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 11 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 12 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 13 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 14 | I hope it will bring a few people along to the network who will stay for the music afterwards . ’ |
| 15 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 16 | This layout was a physical expression of the administrative structure that Hammond was organizing for the office particularly , as Mary Anderson points out , the special status awarded to the Under Secretaries and their political departments , by placing them on the same level as the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | The second option is to sell the property along with the company but ensure that the price received for the company fully reflects the range of values for the assets . |
| 18 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 19 | I should think you probably just about got through the toast possibly . |
| 20 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 21 | They got through the winter together . |
| 22 | It was tough , but we got through the time somehow . |
| 23 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 24 | His intention is the cuddly fish that feeds on acorns and sleeps through the winter when nobody wants to go outside and look in their fishpond anyway . ’ |
| 25 | Still it may be unfashionable to go for the majority anyway . |
| 26 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 27 | Yes , it 's very hard because you get to that stage where you know you can only really push forward for so long , then when it you know , the whistle looms near , you try and you know , you 're just going to go for the result really , and keep it you know , a clean sheet and just get a point out of the game . |
| 28 | However I notice that Wyre Borough Council workmen are now fencing off the area immediately around the swings etc . |
| 29 | We 've got a few er right conversations with Barry as well , slagging off the management so er we 're gon na use that for |
| 30 | The data gathered for the exercise clearly reflect the now very considerable research strength and performance that we possess . |