Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’ |
| 3 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 4 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 5 | While she would not have scored highly in a bout conducted according to the Queensberry Rules , she was strong , agile and quite unscrupulous , since the evenings and holidays of her childhood had been spent in back street and wasteland where enemies , from time immemorial , have come together . |
| 6 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 7 | ‘ Must have gone out in a hurry . |
| 8 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 9 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 10 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 11 | I let myself get caught up in a legend — a fairy-tale . |
| 12 | If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it . |
| 13 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’ |
| 15 | Fun tray Children soon learn how to undo buckles on car safety restraints , but tying or turning them is not the solution as they wo n't come undone quickly in an emergency . |