Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police officers called at his home but were forced to withdraw when Say picked up a shotgun and placed the barrels in his mouth . |
| 2 | I put brought out a list of points . |
| 3 | The torches beam picked out a notice telling of the Covenanters who had been imprisoned there three hundred and fifty years before and another commemorating the once famous Scots buried under the damp , heavy earth . |
| 4 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 5 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 6 | Most girls just get married once a year and have another baby . |
| 7 | Go left over a low ridge and downhill . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 9 | ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . ) |
| 10 | And then you 've filled in a works situations |
| 11 | because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line , |
| 12 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 13 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 14 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 15 | We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight . |
| 16 | Well I 've heard quite a lot of it so why I should bring the subject up then everyone started talking about it . |
| 17 | and I , I mean I , I think we 've heard earlier a lot o , people who , people who 've who have become carers because they need that , they need to care for somebody , and they want that dimension in their life . |
| 18 | You 've picked up a book — you might even have bought it — that you thought was about cancer , but all you 're getting is an incoherent autobiography about an unknown . |
| 19 | There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away . |
| 20 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've picked up a distress signal . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 23 | You see , we 've picked up a thief who had a cape he admits to stealing . |
| 24 | You can already manage horses better than any man I know — with the possible exception of Tom here — and you 've picked up a good general knowledge of farming . |
| 25 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 26 | We 've picked out a few of the very best places and entertainments for our trips programme to give you a taste of one of the most attractive areas in Spain . |
| 27 | We 've picked out a few packages from the Windows range , more or less at random , just to whet your appetite . |
| 28 | I think once you 've let loose a case like this , it will be very hard to contain it . |
| 29 | You 've let out a bag of trouble for yourself , ’ said Lucenzo harshly . |
| 30 | But I 've come down a bit now . |