Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | I think both principles remain given this system . |
| 3 | The tests we report followed these operations by 3–7 months ( P.P. ) and 8–10 months ( L.A.H. ) . |
| 4 | The party you support created such chaos that unemployment rose by a hundred and thirty one percent . |
| 5 | A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman . |
| 6 | All observers seem agreed that demerger is sensible in principle . |
| 7 | SAVE challenged this , succeeded in getting the building listed and argued that the building could be used as an extension for a nearby office that already had on-site car-parking . |
| 8 | I do n't know if any of the li any of the stuff you read mentioned this or not . |
| 9 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 10 | they wanted to er you know given these guidelines I 'd think right let's , as you were saying , just go for it and |
| 11 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 12 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 13 | ‘ Women are usually the weak ones who get rescued all the time . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , we get fed all sorts of information from various levels in and rumours from outside , not just the milkman , you know |
| 15 | The Lion ran away from the zoo because he was n't get fed enough ! |
| 16 | They get collected most days . |
| 17 | erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that |
| 18 | We get told that , we used to get told like , use six thousand or seven thousand or numbers like that . |
| 19 | Cos we never get told any more . |
| 20 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 21 | Over the years you get called all kinds of things , but a few weeks ago I reached new heights . |
| 22 | If you walk out of the class you get called all the names under the sun , ‘ cissy ’ , ‘ poof ’ and all this crap . |
| 23 | well we just do this , people get asked this drive as responsible and driving that children under fourteen are sitting |
| 24 | They 'd never you know imagined that anything like that could quite happen so we , |
| 25 | And in the typical sort of way that lawyers get knocked these days erm we get lumped in with other people and the mud flies . |
| 26 | The reasons he feels uneasy at the task he 's given himself , of pamphleteering , are first that he 's not he 's had to interrupt his studies and is not get learned enough for his poem , though you will have noticed he considers himself quite learned enough for ecclesiastical politics . |
| 27 | And if you like ignored those because we had more to lose . |
| 28 | ‘ Go inside and get dressed this minute ! |
| 29 | I never get sent any , yeah . |
| 30 | ‘ An' 'er 's gooin' ter get married all in white , orange blossoms an' all , ’ said another . |