Example sentences of "of [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 2 | We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that . |
| 3 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |
| 4 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 5 | The third report I know of came from the Johannesburg Sunday Times of 14 February , 1982 , and was sent to me by a medical colleague . |
| 6 | ‘ But he just kind of strolled into the office and said ‘ Well … |
| 7 | He just sort of glanced at the photos and then carried on talking . |
| 8 | And we sort of walked round the town and back to where we 'd parked the car and there were there were places you know , pubs and cafes which are |
| 9 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 10 | But er , I never , never sort of thought about the Guild , going to the Guild erm at all really , because erm mother , I say , was in the Guild till she died in nineteen forty-three . |
| 11 | anyway , and I sort of said to the waitress , why what was it ? |
| 12 | Was he , sort of stood at the pool ? |