Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 3 | Sometimes the numbers are sufficient to precipitate Type I disease in calves 3-4 weeks after they are turned out to graze in the spring . |
| 4 | Almost 1 million people will be helped back to work in the coming year by employment and training programmes . |
| 5 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 6 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 7 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 8 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 9 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 10 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 11 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 12 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 13 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 14 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |
| 15 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 16 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |
| 17 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 18 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 19 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |