Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 2 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 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 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 6 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 10 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 11 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 12 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 13 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 14 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 15 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 16 | The brief dialogue I later found preserved along with the car rental papers : |
| 17 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 20 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 21 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 24 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 25 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 26 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 27 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 28 | He 'd fallen out of the tree and the tiger was close somewhere just beyond the clearing . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |