Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ? |
| 2 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 3 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 4 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 5 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 6 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 7 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 8 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 9 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 10 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 11 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 12 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 13 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 14 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 15 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 16 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
| 17 | ‘ I got zapped by a flying saucer , ’ Bill explained . |
| 18 | We have already heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) suggest that there should be a further element which would take into account the length of time that someone has lived in a house . |
| 19 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 20 | The ring I 'd grasped as a baby |
| 21 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 22 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
| 23 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 24 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 25 | Well that 's what he said oh no when he went to sleep I did I 'd done about a page this is what I read out , I went Professor Plop and the Time Machine . |
| 26 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 27 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 28 | I 'd struggled through a freelance career using a wonderful old black upright Imperial typewriter , the kind hammered manically by Jack ( ‘ Cigarette me ! ’ ) |
| 29 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 30 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |