Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 3 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 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 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 16 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 17 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 20 | The brief dialogue I later found preserved along with the car rental papers : |
| 21 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 22 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 25 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 30 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |