Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
2 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
3 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
4 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 ’ . |
7 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 … . |
10 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
11 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
12 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
13 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
14 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
15 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
16 | The negotiators agreed to meet again before the end of November , and although no date was arranged for the holding of full normalization talks , it was suggested that these might begin before the end of 1990 . |
17 | Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future . |
18 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
19 | The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side . |
20 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
21 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
22 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
23 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
24 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
25 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
26 | The claim is disputed … but it 's still a good excuse for a ballooning festival.So the lawns of the Chase Hotel were busy this evening as the fist arrivals for the weekend event prepared for their ascent.We took up the offer of a flight with Ian Ashpole , who told us he planned to jump out of the balloon when we reached full height : |
27 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
28 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
29 | As Fraser tried to drive out of the car park one of the men tried to prise open the sunroof of his car , then kicked the side of it , causing dents in the driver 's side wing and door . |
30 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |