Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | ‘ On the continent , if managers do that they get kicked out by the players . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Who are you , you 're not the Queen ’ , and I used to sit down , get pulled up by the girls : ‘ Come on . ’ |
| 7 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 8 | 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 … ’ |
| 9 | My fingers feel chopped off at the knuckles . |
| 10 | I did n't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 12 | And er , we 'll see that if they 've , if they 've come through with the goods all right . |
| 13 | ‘ Or it might be one of the people they 've turned out of the bins , ’ said Pam . |
| 14 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | we 've gone back to the others though now yes , we get |
| 17 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 18 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 19 | Here , for the nostalgic or merely curious among you , is the complete list of all the stuff we 've put out over the years . |
| 20 | On the gallops they 've huddled in against the hedgerows to watch and study the form . |
| 21 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 22 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 23 | TWO student chefs from Darlington College have won through to the finals of a national catering competition . |
| 24 | From the urgency of new single ‘ Fight ’ to the Snowboy-fuelled groove of ‘ Lucky Fellow ’ , McKoy have come up with the goods . |
| 25 | ‘ They say the Hidden Folk have come out of the mountains and attacked the Rorims to the south in league with the beasts , ’ the landlord whispered confidentially . |
| 26 | ‘ And six thousand people have come out to the meetings . ’ |
| 27 | RESIDENTS in the area where a new superstore is planned have come out against the proposals . |
| 28 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 29 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 30 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |