Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , he noted : ‘ There are certain of these streaks of pigment which appear licked on with the point of the tongue . ’ |
| 2 | But many of the fertilised eggs remain buried deep among the sand grains where they will stay for a month until , once more , high water reaches this part of the beach , stirring the sand , releasing the larvae to swim freely in the sea . |
| 3 | If the failure of the ‘ ideological forms ’ lies in the operation of an idealist epistemology , the specific instances of ideological forms ( religion , aesthetics , the law , politics , philosophy ) that Marx mentions , seem doomed only to the extent that they depend on an idealist epistemology . |
| 4 | They lay packed together in the gloom , trying to make themselves comfortable on the wires . |
| 5 | Their hands lay laced together on the chair arm , but Lisa did not look at him as he put to her , ‘ Of course you have to think of Emily , but surely there must be a couple of men out there who are capable of being a good father to your daughter ? ’ |
| 6 | Now why those places should be funny , and we have to apologise to all the people who live there , but it does sound funny , and they er they just er the trials and tribulations they have when their own rather complex personal lives get mixed up with the play they 're doing . |
| 7 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 8 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 9 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When we get fed up with the worship , the vicar , the organist , or other elements of church life , we should remember that justification by faith in the fellowship means accepting that our differences are as important to God as our similarities . |
| 12 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but that that is the Sunday thing that 's how I get muddled up with the date , but that 's on the same tape you see ? |
| 15 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 16 | I know , but that one seems worse than anywhere , is n't it , every week you know stolen out of the car park car broken into , I mean who 's , I ca n't imagine with all them cars in there that nobody ever seems to see anything . |
| 17 | It would start out trying to reach us , but then get pulled on to the floor . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There 's a lot of dancing and the children get swept away with the energy . |
| 20 | Well I certainly agree erm that erm women are n't getting erm a fair share in the workforce as regards equal opportunities , and I think , unintentionally , women get clobbered all along the line . |
| 21 | ‘ The thing I get asked most about the Stealth is why there 's an ‘ aux in ’ socket on the front . |
| 22 | Records get knocked out in the studio hastily , emerge knock-kneed , spindly , pallid and monochrome . |
| 23 | You simply get taken along by the system , people crowding around you , the press anxious for interviews . |
| 24 | ‘ Let's hope history sort of repeats itself , and we get promoted back in the year we come back home . ’ |
| 25 | Cos I , I mean I tend to change my mind about I 'll be listening half way through a song and then get pissed get pissed off with the album and go and |
| 26 | As Peter Medawar pointed out many years ago in his classic essay Is the scientific paper a fraud ? these essential elements in how research is done get refined out from the account as it appears in the finally published papers or scientific reviews , just as they have largely , though not entirely , been filtered from the discussion of Aplysia and LTP in the last chapter . |
| 27 | You get attached especially at the spooling because you 're working in twos . |
| 28 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 29 | It 's pitch dark and you have to stand up dead straight and if you wobble at all you get spiked either by the glass on the walls or the nails on the door . |
| 30 | get mentioned somewhere along the line of , of you know maybe you know , I mean God knows how you would fund a |