Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 2 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 4 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 5 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |
| 6 | And by the same token that clever little bistro Piers and Amanda found tucked away in a cellar behind Herne Hill tube station was definitely out . |
| 7 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 8 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 9 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 10 | Soon afterwards police arrested a man with a gunshot wound to the chest found slumped nearby in an alley behind Copperfield Street . |
| 11 | The new generation has grown up in a continuation of that climate , one of falsity and evasion . |
| 12 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 13 | One major theme , already mentioned in the previous chapter , is the search for co-ordination , a search that has figured prominently in a number of urban programmes . |
| 14 | Often this has resulted either in a loss of heart by both choirs and organists , leading to the demise of choral singing and organ-playing , or in these services being no longer required . |
| 15 | ‘ Pool 's increasing size has resulted only in a proliferation of these strange sub-routines . |
| 16 | What has happened previously in a lot of educational research is that large samples have been taken . |
| 17 | What has happened previously in a lot of educational research is that large samples have been taken . |
| 18 | The world has changed completely in a matter of just six months for the engaging Rhodes . |
| 19 | but left open the question whether there is any difference under section 87 if the successor has resided for 12 months with the deceased tenant in two or more council houses or has resided partly in a council house and partly in private sector accommodation : [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1433 , 1441H . |
| 20 | Like symbiotic grubs they lay twisted together in a ball , until Mangar-Kunjer-Kunja appeared in the guise of a lizard . |
| 21 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 22 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 23 | Kate was n't particularly fanciful , but Dara reminded her of a black panther she 'd seen once in a zoo . |
| 24 | " No , " he 'd said flatly in a manner which meant he would not change his mind . |
| 25 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 26 | She ran her tongue nervously over her lips , tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she 'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student , fresh from college . |
| 27 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 28 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 29 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 30 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |