Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
2 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
3 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
4 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
5 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
6 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
7 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
8 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
9 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
10 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
11 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
12 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
13 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
14 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
15 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
16 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
17 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
18 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
19 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
20 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
21 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
22 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
23 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
24 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
25 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
26 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
27 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
28 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
29 | The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list . |
30 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |