Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 4 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 5 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 9 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 10 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 11 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 12 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 14 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 15 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 16 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 17 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 18 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 19 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 20 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 21 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 22 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 23 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 24 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 25 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 26 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 27 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 28 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 29 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 30 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |