Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 5 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We got treated like shit , so we treated the teachers like shit . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The future became filled with doubt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 13 | Following the Industrial Revolution , many trees became blackened by smoke and on these the speckled moths were suddenly highly conspicuous . |
| 14 | I hate to think what Major Maxim got taught in school — or would it have been the Army ? ’ |
| 15 | It seemed that the detailed pattern of the embryo was laid down in the egg and became partitioned during cleavage , thus supporting Weissman 's claim . |
| 16 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 17 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
| 18 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 19 | The government 's discomfiture during the Crimean War had aroused great expectations of major change even before Alexander became committed to Emancipation . |
| 20 | Prejudice , such as that exploited by Tupper in Cardiff in 1911 , became mixed with self concern — the belief that Asiatic crews would work for lower wages and in worse conditions than British , and so undercut the union 's effort to improve both in the British seaman 's interests . |
| 21 | Another time the carburettor became clogged with sand , and a third time she simply ran out of fuel . |
| 22 | More than a dozen vehicles became stranded on the hard shoulder — unable to move because their underside became clogged with tar and chippings . |
| 23 | There , Emerson made a superb start but got caught in traffic at the first left-hander . |
| 24 | When the bus got caught in traffic they dashed off it and ran through a nearby Russell and Bromley shoe store . |
| 25 | They said their last guy got slung in jail last night . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , I got interviewed on radio once , on , on television once with a friend and they asked , they asked us what we did , and this friend of mine said we were radio mime artists . |
| 27 | I think he went to visit my mother and got incarcerated by accident . |
| 28 | Occultism and oriental mysticism became fused with astrology , magic , cabbalistic elements from Jewish tradition , a pessimistic reading of Plato 's doctrine that man 's true home does not lie in this bodily realm , above all the catalyst of the Christian understanding of redemption in Christ . |
| 29 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 30 | Many clients became disillusioned with search in the 1970s , receiving some indifferent service and assuming that all headhunters were the same ; this view is rapidly disappearing in the 1980s , although many search practices current during the Big Bang gave search a bad name , such as wholesale movement of trading and broking teams , for instance . |