Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 2 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 4 | what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see |
| 5 | I 've got to go up the town , like |
| 6 | " I 've got to give up the job . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've got to sort out the balance between club and country because it 's very important to both sets of managers . |
| 8 | While they were looking round the garden I you 've got to get out the shower quick . |
| 9 | But you 've got to check out the odds . |
| 10 | No , we 've got to look down the race-card for some attractive , available , acquiescent filly — and the likeliest filly is surely — ’ |
| 11 | E two , now you 've got to work out the average speed , right try and think roughly what the answer would be , because if you thought of that , then you would know that 's a silly answer , cos look , how far is the journey ? |
| 12 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 13 | Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine . |
| 14 | they 've had to close down the spi , and that . |
| 15 | And we 've attempted to cost out the work that 's done against the resources . |
| 16 | " They 've gone to turn out the Owsla , and then we 'll be for it right enough . " |
| 17 | I take it you 've managed to staighten out the wrinkles in your own affairs , then ? ’ |
| 18 | How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever . |
| 19 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 20 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 21 | But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer . |
| 22 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 23 | None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition . |
| 24 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 25 | As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain . |
| 26 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 27 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 28 | Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves . |
| 29 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 30 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |