Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The YCs got punished more than anybody else and had a really hard time . |
| 2 | You feel good about the help you 've given perhaps , but you still wish the person would only ring when it 's essential . |
| 3 | I got remanded twice , then I got probation on condition that I attended the Winterborn Unit , a mental hospital near Oxford , as a day patient . |
| 4 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 5 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 6 | These are becoming cults : Wobble got mobbed once in Leamington Spa . |
| 7 | Well er ha you know I found myself after Budgie managing a singer called Leo and that led to a lot of interesting business and getting involved an , and I sort of forgot Adam Faith for ten years and just got diverted really . |
| 8 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 9 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 10 | If I drive the line through , preventing them from laughing , then the final laugh will be both laughs joined together , and some more — from relief . ’ |
| 11 | As he cleared off to lick his wounds in Canada he spoke of his displeasure — ‘ by trusting AIP ( Corman 's parent company ) to make a beautiful flick , I put my balls on the table and they got lobbed right off . ’ |
| 12 | Surely his death must show you that we ca n't stay hidden any longer . |
| 13 | This single cell divides into two identical cells ( which remain joined together ) , each of which divides to give a four-celled structure . |
| 14 | ‘ He must 've flown away so quick , we did n't spot him , ’ said Connor . |
| 15 | Indeed , had it not been constructed when it was , Peter Scott 's Wildfowl Trust situated further up river at Slimbridge would probably have lost much of its new grounds to erosion by now . |
| 16 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 17 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 18 | Official Soviet anti-semitism , which has undoubtedly been observable since the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 , must be measured against the rise of popular anti-semitism since political mobilisation ( including that of reactionaries ) became permitted again , not to mention the massacre of Jews on a considerable scale by local elements in the Baltic states and Ukraine , as the Germans marched in but before the systematic German killing of Jews began . |
| 19 | In these early days I got overwhelmed very easily . |
| 20 | ’ Is it something you 'd like to see carried less ? ’ |
| 21 | So it was only on rare occasions that the issue of local sovereignty arose : usually when a person — a single individual — got carried away by indignation or by enthusiasm to raise points which prudent men , a little weary of what they considered to be rhetoric , tended to suppress . |
| 22 | People got carried away about how quickly the research would be commercialised . |
| 23 | During the heady 1980s , Tarmac got carried away chasing the easy money in housebuilding and property development . |
| 24 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 25 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 26 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 27 | I just got carried away . ’ |
| 28 | George Brown emerges from these pages not as a charming if wayward leprechaun , a well-meaning and decent man who occasionally got carried away by his own exuberance , but as a neurotic monster — vain , rude , self-absorbed , utterly insensitive to the feelings and even the common humanity of those around him . |
| 29 | Unigram ( UX No 418 ) got carried away with itself when it identified AGE Logic 's new 32-bit X server as being for Windows NT . |
| 30 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |