Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jack and me got married very quietly yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 2 | The Brigadier appeared and , after much foot stamping and saluting , everyone got lined up and ready to move off , but not before the Brigadier insisted that there should be a bodyguard of four Commandos to protect the Piper . |
| 3 | and one of them got bunked off |
| 4 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 5 | Many of them got burnt out . |
| 6 | The game continues until everyone has run twice . |
| 7 | Curator Hilary Wade said : ‘ Everyone has worked flat out to get things going again , it has been a marvellous effort . ’ |
| 8 | You wonder if all the effort everyone has put in is worthwhile . |
| 9 | Put simply , everyone has come together for the common good and economic prosperity of the river . |
| 10 | Everyone has got so used to safe , tidy music . |
| 11 | The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 12 | ‘ The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 13 | ‘ The search for me has died down . |
| 14 | Dividing the strata into two broad bands — the male non-manual and the male manual workers — Table 2.2 demonstrates the degree to which the distribution of earnings between them has remained relatively constant over the past fifty years . |
| 15 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 16 | We can for instance , endlessly discuss the need to maintain and reinforce brands , now that the service promise bound up with them has become so important . |
| 17 | To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important . |
| 18 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 19 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 20 | One of them has come back . |
| 21 | One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche 's garden . |
| 22 | Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft . |
| 23 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 24 | I 'm aware of having made only two conscious sacrifices for the sake of my young , and neither of them has paid off . |
| 25 | There are two professors in the English department where I work , and in the last twelve months , one of them has got very keen on structuralism . |
| 26 | Nothing has done more than the cruise missiles to divide the peoples of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 27 | Nothing has gone right on that side from the moment I began . |
| 28 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 29 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 30 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |