Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay packed together in the gloom , trying to make themselves comfortable on the wires . |
| 2 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 3 | They too get caught up in the underworld of youth subcultures , where the peer groups become more important ( and possibly more caring ) than the family . |
| 4 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 5 | Anyone with a suspected heart condition or serious bleeding or a major fracture or head injury comes first , though , and every time an ambulance brings someone , they get seen immediately in the trolley area . ’ |
| 6 | It 's a strangely riveting spectacle , but just in case your eyes get poked out in the moshpit , they 've got a quite daring array of slightly goth-laced nagging pop tunes , pinned by means of twiddly guitar hooks and belting choruses to that corner of your brain which is exclusively reserved for tunes to whistle in the supermarket queue . |
| 7 | Records get knocked out in the studio hastily , emerge knock-kneed , spindly , pallid and monochrome . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's hope history sort of repeats itself , and we get promoted back in the year we come back home . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They 've stopped right in the entrance . ’ |
| 10 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |
| 11 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 12 | We 've sat here in the car and watched the erm the birds down there . |
| 13 | We 've come down in the middle of nowhere , and you calmly suggest we walk out ! |
| 14 | You know , I think we 've that nobody keeps us We 've had a name over the years that we 're an expensive carrier , and it 's just sort of keep going and educating them that we 've come down in the market or , |
| 15 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 16 | difficulty in working out whether she 's understanding what we 've said now in the way of instructions until it comes back . |
| 17 | We 've got there in the lead . |
| 18 | I think if we if we if we did actually look around long and hard rather than superficially at what we 've got out in the yard , then it 's ever so easy to criticize . |
| 19 | All bits , other bits of equipment as well , you 've got sometimes in the back of police cars you 've got brooms and shovels to clear the mess up off the road , yeah have you seen a policeman clearing up the road , saving people |
| 20 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 21 | In the meantime , all the genuine members who 've stayed on are livin' in the tented village they 've set up in the grounds , around the burned out house . |
| 22 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 23 | Do you think perhap , erm , because it 's not so busy , do you think perhaps they 've cut back in the restaurant , and that 's why you 're doing a bit more work for the restaurant , you know , doing the floaters and things . |
| 24 | Gon na have to start changing up the hundreds cos we 've run out in the bank . |
| 25 | I 've worked here in the factory for twenty three years . |
| 26 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 27 | It 's like a toy town I 've put away in the cupboard because I 'm too old for it and here it is , still waiting for me . |
| 28 | But prior to that … all the famous disappearances you 've read about in the Sunday tabloids are all part of the same phenomenon . |
| 29 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 30 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |