Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 2 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 3 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 4 | Humbled at Sheffield Eagles on Sunday , in their first game after the defeat of Canberra Raiders , they failed to bounce back in the Lancashire Cup last night , losing to a disciplined Warrington side . |
| 5 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed to turn out in the end that the American negotiator did n't have any flexibility and remained on the crucial issues unmoved . ’ |
| 7 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 8 | This instruction felt like a prison sentence , and condemned to stay up in the cloud , I scanned the instruments nervously , waiting for an unseen gust to grab our little craft . |
| 9 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 10 | So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance . |
| 11 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 12 | She began to scrabble about in the dirt . |
| 13 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 14 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 15 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 16 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 17 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 18 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 19 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 20 | Or perhaps you started to work out in the gym round the corner from the office . |
| 21 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 22 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 23 | So this person thought he was terribly towards the electricity board , and I needed to get through in an emergency , and you ca n't . |
| 24 | He put the journal on Alexandra 's lap and went to sit down in the chair beside hers . |
| 25 | And so by incessant exercise , her right foot grew larger and broader , while the other remained the same size , and at length she feared to go out in the streets at all , for fear of tripping and falling flat . |
| 26 | I ironed my big net here and it meant to go up in the window there . |
| 27 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |
| 28 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 29 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 30 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |