Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 2 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 3 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 4 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 5 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 6 | The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list . |
| 7 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 8 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 9 | The role of users within the mental health system has developed rapidly over the past 10 years . |
| 10 | Clearly , this process has developed considerably during the late twentieth century . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated . |
| 12 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 13 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 14 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 15 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 16 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 17 | In fact , as Stephen Gallup has pointed out in a recent history of the festival , Karajan was the last surviving link with the traditions of the festival 's founding fathers . |
| 18 | As Jonathan Zeitlin has pointed out in a similar context , there are ways in which the product of an industry can affect the margin of manoeuvre of both employer and trade union . |
| 19 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 20 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |
| 21 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 22 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 23 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 24 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 25 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 26 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 27 | Sadly , since 1979 , and in spite of national and international protest , much of the land we loved has vanished forever beneath an ever-increasing canopy of foreign conifers . |
| 28 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 29 | Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism . |
| 30 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |