Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 2 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 3 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 4 | I was that for about , I soon got fed up with that job . |
| 5 | Our man got fed up with this nonsense . |
| 6 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 7 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 8 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 9 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |
| 10 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 11 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 12 | It was a long time since he 'd eaten out in this style and he was shocked by the escalation of prices and VAT . |
| 13 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 15 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 16 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 17 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 18 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 19 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 20 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 21 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 22 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 23 | One SAE applauded an AE who had come out with this line about futures : " This stuff is granny bonds , it 's so simple . " |
| 24 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 25 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 26 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 27 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 28 | You do n't have to read the book , it 's rubbish , but I mean you can just say , if you remember the title , The Imperial Presidency , here was a view that the presidency had become dominant , the presidency had grown out of all proportion to the intentions of the founding fathers and needed to be reined back . |
| 29 | The controversy over affiliation had grown out of all proportion , driving the party into an isolation which neither its leaders nor its members really desired . |
| 30 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |