Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 2 | Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future . |
| 3 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 9 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 10 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 11 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 12 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
| 13 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 14 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 15 | His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist . |
| 16 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 17 | The sound it made rustling outside in the trees made him feel comfortable and protected . |
| 18 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 19 | Humbled at Sheffield Eagles on Sunday , in their first game after the defeat of Canberra Raiders , they failed to bounce back in the Lancashire Cup last night , losing to a disciplined Warrington side . |
| 20 | the rocket was projected up to a considerable height and directed to fall somewhere in the London area . |
| 21 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 22 | Was there a lot of people who came to work here in the fishing town . |
| 23 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 24 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 25 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 26 | ‘ The doctor will be here soon , and I 'm sure — ’ She turned as the door behind her opened , and the curly-haired doctor she 'd seen briefly in the dining-room came softly towards the bed . |
| 27 | A strong , dark , classical face , with a cleft chin and that peculiarly haunting quality she 'd seen only in the paintings of old masters . |
| 28 | Twisting the key in the ignition , she wished , belatedly , that she 'd struggled more in the barn , been more scathing … |
| 29 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 30 | For the first time , Isobel felt a little afraid of him , as all the suppressed fury of a rejected child came pouring out in the music . |