Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not allowed to go jetting off to the Caribbean , that 's all . |
| 2 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 3 | He was breathless with the effort of clinging precariously to the limited footholds and it was time , he decided , to risk climbing down to the ground . |
| 4 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 5 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 6 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 7 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 8 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
| 9 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |
| 10 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 11 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 12 | Just take it from me that it 's not in your best interests to go hunting around for the ship . ’ |
| 13 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 14 | The author 's been unable to resist popping down to the set once in a while to keep an eye on how it 's going . |
| 15 | Then the main wall of water struck the building , and the shutters burst inwards like reeds , and the salt water rushed white and green into the hall at Orphir , thrusting obstructions aside , while a slap of water , heavy as lead , fell on the thatch and through it , to pour foaming down on the deepening sea on the hall-floor . |
| 16 | She laughed a little nervously , unable to help noticing out of the corner of her eye that the little crowd which had gathered was melting rapidly away now that official help had arrived . |
| 17 | For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window . |
| 18 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 19 | Without a specific perpetuity period of at least the length of the term ( if the term exceeds 21 years ) plus a few additional years to cover holding over under the 1954 Act , there would be no right to use pipes placed under the premises during the 23rd year of the term . |
| 20 | To do that almost seemed to entail giving up on the course altogether . |
| 21 | Vendors say organisations will usually buy immediately they have state credits to avoid losing out on the plunging value of the rouble . |
| 22 | As young men , they managed to avoid falling out over the tendentious terms of their father 's will . |
| 23 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 24 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 25 | I wanted to buy some blades and socks , but most of all I wanted to avoid arriving back at the flat at the exact time she did , just in case Harvey should be angry at her disobeying him . |
| 26 | There were no trees and the nearest defining hedge was a quarter of a mile away , beyond a desert of sugar beet , its squat green leaves hugging the soil as though unwilling to risk rising up into the wide air . |
| 27 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 28 | Another criterion that works well is to continue delegating up to the point where subordinates either actually object , or begin to fail to deliver successful results . |
| 29 | Staff may wish to consider passing on to the library copies of any newsletters which they receive as part of society memberships . |
| 30 | Do you know as you come in to Salisbury and you have to keep going on with the traffic , then it leads up to the bridge where the wa , where the river is . |