Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , had it not been constructed when it was , Peter Scott 's Wildfowl Trust situated further up river at Slimbridge would probably have lost much of its new grounds to erosion by now .
2 Get tucked up in bed with a good book
3 I often get tipped off about things like that . ’
4 People , Let's relax for just a sec and not get carried away with talk of 7–0 victories over twenty years ago , a lucky , boring 1–0 will do wonderfully well .
5 This is not always easy because we often get caught up in activities without thinking about who is really supposed to benefit or who is actually ‘ calling the tune ’ .
6 ‘ Individually a few have done , ’ said his new colleague Sarah , ‘ but they get squeezed back into line by the West . ’
7 Instead , the sometimes delicate and often ravishing songs from the aforementioned recent LP get shot through with bolts of pure electricity .
8 Well liberation theology is one version of it that in certain parts of the world , particularly where there is great economic and political oppression , where people get locked up in prisons for believing and thinking differently , and where there is very real persecution of the poor , and those who erm have different ideas .
9 Whatever , if your intestines get tied up in knots over bootlegs , ‘ The Curse ’ could cause terminal internal damage .
10 He brought , on the one hand , an attitude and , on the other , a brace of new writers to the paper who form part of the backbone of today 's NME , a place where people argue , fight , get drunk and get worked up about pop under the benevolent and sardonic regime of the mohicanned tartar of rock publishing , Danny Kelly .
11 Low-growing crocuses and irises will be easier to manage than full-size daffodils , which get beaten about by wind in exposed situations .
12 I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved .
13 ‘ Oh , he is famous for it and I believe sent down from Oxford for it .
14 The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge .
15 As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers .
16 I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off .
17 And th and can I restate the view of British Rail , there is little or no prospect of a new station being opened up on the east coast main route main line , because of the four track configuration , which I 'm sure you 'll have seen on your when you 've come up to York by tr by train .
18 At long last they 've come out in favour of wealth , is n't that extraordinary , reported in today 's paper .
19 And now you 've come down to London with no accommodation apart from that grotty little hotel , and signed a lease on a shop you 've never seen before , with no independent survey , no up-to-date trading figures and no solicitor to check the terms of the agreement ? ’
20 I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’
21 Oh they 've come down in price from when I 'm talking about , when they first come first out , they were quite a lot , a lot more
22 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
23 He 's seen old people who 've moved out of homes before and they 've enjoyed it .
24 That you 've acted out of altruism from the first ?
25 How in the last twenty six years do you feel that you 've got on with people in general ?
26 We 've got well under way with the job , she 's very white , sh you can imagine why , she 's feeling very you know she 's very sort of edgy as you move things out and she 's deciding what to move .
27 For years whenever I 've got out of bed in the middle of the night — about whatever pursuit you get out of bed in the night for — my right ankle has made cracking noises , like kindling being snapped .
28 ‘ I 've walked halfway across Berlin for the International Anti-War Youth Movement , and I 'm for a swim . ’
29 fucking er it was like that but they ai n't just do n't go and get very close to the like that So I 've gone up under arch of the wheel got my like that right state I got in !
30 A They 've gone up in line with the increase in the number of Bonds .
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