Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 2 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 3 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 4 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 5 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
| 6 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 7 | ‘ A young girl got attacked last week , my mate in the police told me . |
| 8 | Mr Georges said that mobile phone calls Gavin made included many to race lines . |
| 9 | THE benefits of splitting up a business were demonstrated when Racal Electronics reported trebled annual profits . |
| 10 | The companies involved included two car plants , six cement companies , a chemical plant , an engineering firm , a fertilizer plant , eight ghee factories and 11 roti plants . |
| 11 | In a second division top-of-the-table clash , Thomas & Nelson drew 1-1 with Stockkman Lodge , Rocksavage won 2-1 at Duke of Wellington and third-placed Tarbock Villa maintained won 4-2 against Todds . |
| 12 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 13 | James was beginning to hone his talents as a writer of fiction , and as part of a Trinidad literary circle that included such writers as Albert Gomes and Ralph de Boissière he helped found two important , if short-lived , literary journals as outlets for their writing : Trinidad ( 1929–30 ) and The Beacon ( 1931–3 ) . |
| 14 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the time-scale involved led both parties to conclude that discussions to merge the two organisations should not be continued . ’ |
| 16 | These are threefold : ( 1 ) that the number of cases reported represented one-fifth the true rate , ( 2 ) that an average of two head were stolen in each theft , and ( 3 ) that the hypothetical animal had a life span of ten years . |
| 17 | The data analysed represented 65 developments from 54 companies in the four countries . |
| 18 | Now you got fed this morning Patch . |
| 19 | Yes , the good old US Fifties , where trade unionists got shot dead for striking in Detroit , where blacks got lynched by the Klan without hindrance in the South , and where Senator Joe McCarthy or FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover destroyed peoples ' lives for having beliefs contrary to their own . |
| 20 | We had the same bills after he got made redundant . |
| 21 | When he first got made redundant he got earnings-related dole , about £7 for himself , but I never had money of my own . |
| 22 | I 'd ask him to clean the bath when he got out or occasionally hoover , but he would n't so we rowed about that , especially after he got made redundant . |
| 23 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 24 | because I said it was erm Simon 's , and then I did n't know really where they lived and erm , I know they moved out , out of next door to Lesley 's , and in the end it never got done that , that more to the point but erm I ca n't do that up until I 've done that can I ? |
| 25 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 26 | The number of times they 'd heard that . |
| 27 | She had almost dropped the frying pan when she 'd heard that . |
| 28 | Well , cos it was in town , it was nearer to shops , and erm I 'd heard that keeping Balloon Woods ' flats warm was costing people a hell of a lot of money . |
| 29 | I 'd heard that noise before , but never from Selina . |
| 30 | He was n't sure he 'd heard that right . |