Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | ‘ On the continent , if managers do that they get kicked out by the players . ’ |
| 13 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 16 | Who are you , you 're not the Queen ’ , and I used to sit down , get pulled up by the girls : ‘ Come on . ’ |
| 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 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 20 | They 're trying to arrange a ‘ mutually convenient ’ date ( and in the back of their minds they also want it to still be on sky … so unless we both get knocked out of the FA cup this weekend ( perish the thought ) we 'll probably end up playing a saturday and the following monday if moneygrabber silver is owt to do with it . |
| 21 | Records get knocked out in the studio hastily , emerge knock-kneed , spindly , pallid and monochrome . |
| 22 | You simply get taken along by the system , people crowding around you , the press anxious for interviews . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's hope history sort of repeats itself , and we get promoted back in the year we come back home . ’ |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 29 | Then the sound of the bells faded and , like water suddenly released from a dam , vigour and brawl and bustle flooded back into the scene . |
| 30 | My fingers feel chopped off at the knuckles . |