Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose 'e got in by usin' the latchcord , ’ she said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | She helped out by taking the copy phoned in by our correspondents around the region . |
| 15 | So the Government helped out by pulling the rug from under savers . |
| 16 | She found that , in the case before her , the balance came down against ordering the return of the children to Australia . |
| 17 | ‘ Preston , ’ said Polly , when she came down from putting the twins to bed and in a tone he had come to recognise over the years . |
| 18 | Henri answered the insistent buzz of the telephone , almost instantly holding it out to Mait , who came in from inspecting the hounfort . |
| 19 | I came back from moving the cows , and found Raimundo and his merry men engaged in breaking proper . |
| 20 | It was early , though , the next morning when Wendy Witherington came back from answering the telephone . |
| 21 | Andrew came back from opening the door for her : " Do you think they 'll hunt tomorrow ? " he asked . |
| 22 | This morning I came back from doing the weekend shopping and it was — it had all been done over . |
| 23 | Ballesteros dropped out after bogeying the first sudden-death hole and Mize and Norman continued . |
| 24 | The evolution of the biosphere — indeed the very existence of the biosphere — came about by taming the worst excesses of incoming solar radiation by screening out the more harmful rays . |
| 25 | Taylor/L , A G.C. O'Nion intercepted a Z.506B which made off on seeing the fighter and attempted to evade by making steep turns , but Taylor was quickly onto its tail and forced it down into the sea . |
| 26 | The defendants made off after cutting the telephone wire , immobilising Mr Bayle 's mobile telephone and slashing the tyres of his van and car . |
| 27 | The Christian Democrats paid up by accommodating the wage explosions . |
| 28 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |
| 29 | Unable to answer her own questions , she turned back without approaching the Villa . |
| 30 | They turned back before reaching the roofless church in the middle of the old graveyard out on the edge of land . |