Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 2 | Then one voice grew louder , piercing into his brain as his body became paralysed with shock and disbelief . |
| 3 | Like the other Pyrenean divisions , Béarn is medieval ; this was once the largest of the furiously independent mountain states , a viscounty which came into existence as early as 820 , was at different moments of its history the vassal of Aragon and England , became joined by marriage with the powerful viscounty of Foix and with Basse-Navarre , and finally , when Henri IV , ‘ le grand Béarnais ’ , became king of the whole of France in 1589 , was integrated with the Crown . |
| 4 | We were kept in the police station for a couple of days and then we got remanded to Low Newton . |
| 5 | I got remanded to Holloway , which I did n't like . |
| 6 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 7 | The role of documentation and the devices for handling information in a museum context often remain hidden to visitors , who are nonetheless bombarded with information from the moment they enter any large museum or art gallery — in the form of signs indicating the way to the cafeteria , ground-plans of the premises , or , more obviously , labels and information panels associated with the gallery displays . |
| 8 | For all these reasons the inner workings of the bureaucracy remain hidden from view . |
| 9 | Recent data indicate that the serotonergic systems implicated in the regulation of feeding and mood remain altered in anorexia nervous patients even after weight restoration . |
| 10 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 11 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 12 | Sukarno became fascinated by Hartini , wife of an oil magnate . |
| 13 | In Czechoslovakia , farmers face ruin after two years of drought , whilst in south-eastern Spain , people are compelled to buy bottled water after their depleted subterranean supply became contaminated with salt . |
| 14 | Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving . |
| 15 | But a cat like that could stay hidden for months . |
| 16 | We got treated like shit , so we treated the teachers like shit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He got sacked at Newcastle , but sometimes I think the game can be cruel by not giving you enough time to make your mark . ’ |
| 18 | What her reception would be she feared to imagine , and as she drew near to the Mohaka River bridge she became filled with apprehension because , now that she came to think of it , she realised she was poking her nose into something that did not even remotely concern her . |
| 19 | The future became filled with doubt . |
| 20 | Acres of newsprint and countless hours of air time became filled with elucidations on the new technology , some of them distinctly bizarre . |
| 21 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 22 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 23 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 24 | In this way , squirrels in a wood can remain hidden from view while a predator explores the whole region . |
| 25 | Expansion of their wealth depended upon drawing serfs away from the land to labour in the towns ( thus serfs who could remain hidden within town walls for a year and a day gained freedom from the land ) and on undermining those aristocratic privileges , such as control over roads , which inhibited commercial activity . |
| 26 | Until that time , he will remain hidden in Mount Kyffhausen . |
| 27 | When termites leave the nest to forage on dead plant material , they can remain hidden by building tunnels from the nest to the food supplies . |
| 28 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
| 29 | And then he became irritated by Lineker 's ‘ goody two-shoes ’ image , because he felt it was not necessarily justified . |
| 30 | Following the Industrial Revolution , many trees became blackened by smoke and on these the speckled moths were suddenly highly conspicuous . |