Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waving to him , Mungo got on with sanding the unfinished side of the gate . |
| 2 | ‘ Then we got on with watching the match . ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile the staff got on with producing the magazine . |
| 4 | Maggie got on with making the breakfast . |
| 5 | This bad timing is typical for Deirdre , who once tried to kill a faithless lover with an ashtray , but succeeded only in setting the hotel room on fire . |
| 6 | Leaning back in a comfortable armchair , a glass of frosted lime juice in his hand , Hawkins succeeded only in giving the impression of a man with all the time in the world . |
| 7 | Dunlop elected to punch a cross from Steve Staunton , but succeeded only in presenting the ball to Ronnie Whelan , who drilled it back past him from 18 yards . |
| 8 | When Lizzie tried to make Cinderella curtsey she succeeded only in crossing the puppet 's feet , and she started to laugh ; then , laying the puppet down , she said , ‘ But of the three , you know , I think I like Buttons ; he 's so appealing . ’ |
| 9 | But we almost got down to saying the other day that probably need to have an action plan or a structure for the pre-meeting as well . |
| 10 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 11 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose 'e got in by usin' the latchcord , ’ she said . |
| 13 | For several years their task was to open and close the trap doors which were essential for controlling the circulation of air , then at about the age of twelve they moved on to pushing the underground wagons . |
| 14 | He moved on from attacking the general principle of lists which had no apparent critical authority to citing individual examples of how books sometimes needed a mediator , most often a teacher , for their message to make sense . |
| 15 | No ordinary carriage , not subject to any hasty conversion to ensure its usefulness , but out of the railway factory yards of Leningrad and designed only for transporting the prisoners . |
| 16 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 17 | SPANISH golf ace Jose-Maria Olazabal grumbled yesterday after taking the lead in the Lancome Trophy in Paris with a first-round five-under-par 65 . |
| 18 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 19 | That 's the challenge from the Electrical and Electronics Industries Benevolent Association , The EEIBA is the only UK charity dedicated solely to serving the needs of people associated with the electrical and electronic industries . |
| 20 | Leading pacifists were drawn to Guild Socialism , and the ILP itself moved far towards endorsing the idea of self-government in industry . |
| 21 | In Kufra , for example , Zuwaya cadres drew back from imposing the full rigours of socialist regulation on members of opposed Zuwaya groups ; but in Ajdabiya — closer to Tripoli , more heterogeneous because swollen by immigration — Magharba cadres did not refrain from threatening Zuwaya landlords with expropriation ( although by 1979 they had not put their threats into action ) . |
| 22 | The company claims that these protocols can be loaded and accessed simultaneously without interrupting the LANtastic network connection . |
| 23 | The company claims that these protocols can be loaded and accessed simultaneously without interrupting the LANtastic network connection . |
| 24 | We found out by following the progress of one of this year 's semi-finalists at the annual Smirnoff Fashion Awards — a competition which celebrates student design … |
| 25 | She helped out by taking the copy phoned in by our correspondents around the region . |
| 26 | So the Government helped out by pulling the rug from under savers . |
| 27 | Wallace came on 2nd half instead of Whelan , and hasseled well without Scoring The Goal . |
| 28 | They trusted in God and his Law , For the same purpose , the Greeks trusted their own intelligence and initiative , were unceremoniously aggressive and contributed everywhere to disturbing the peace of the Persian Empire on which the reconstruction of Judaism depended . |
| 29 | He notes that : ‘ the Institution was built in a Quadrangle Form , having now in the centre a large lawn or grass plot surrounded by posts and chains , and that between the Buildings and these a broad Pathway had been left , partly paved with stones … used chiefly for testing the freedom from lameness of Horses sent for examination prior to purchase ; as well as for ascertaining the progress of those under treatment in the Infirmary for lameness arising from various causes . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that when the Unionist party governed Northern Ireland it concentrated heavily on developing the roads only in the eastern part of Northern Ireland ? |