Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 2 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 9 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 13 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 14 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 15 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 16 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 17 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 18 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 19 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 20 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 21 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 22 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |
| 23 | And by the same token that clever little bistro Piers and Amanda found tucked away in a cellar behind Herne Hill tube station was definitely out . |
| 24 | Soon afterwards police arrested a man with a gunshot wound to the chest found slumped nearby in an alley behind Copperfield Street . |
| 25 | The brief dialogue I later found preserved along with the car rental papers : |
| 26 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 27 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 30 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |