Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 4 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 8 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 9 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 10 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 11 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 16 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 17 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 18 | An argument has broken out over the royalty rate paid to artists for each copy of both DCC and another new format , MiniDisc . |
| 19 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 20 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |
| 21 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 22 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 23 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 24 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 25 | Once married and committed to their partner , they may find excitement has flown out of the window . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out in the House that nearly 50 per cent . |
| 27 | This is spoken at a time when the media are documenting despair amongst Cork Street galleries and recognition by major collectors such as the Saatchi family that the bottom has fallen out of the market for modern art . |
| 28 | The bridge has fallen in with the Mayor and Corporation on it . |
| 29 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
| 30 | Gran has joined in on the act . |