Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | Marriages get broken up every day . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Marriages get broken up every day . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 7 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , actual variable cost has the disadvantage that if the producer is inefficient , then the inefficiencies get passed up the line ; the divisions receiving the goods get lumbered . |
| 10 | There are plenty of victims involved : thousands of brutes get routed out every week . |
| 11 | Most girls just get married once a year and have another baby . |
| 12 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 13 | As the top layers become dried out the animals move downward . |
| 14 | We 've pieced together the fragments of leaks and rumours concerning the latest version of the 10-year-old operating system , due to release at the end of March . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 16 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 17 | ‘ And I 've pointed out the inadequacies of the underbidders , ’ said Mr Lilley blandly , in a reference to the Korean underbidder , Hyundai . |
| 18 | ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . ) |
| 19 | And then you 've filled in a works situations |
| 20 | When you 've filled in the grid , rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to make up another word to do with the Club . |
| 21 | So I had a meeting with Dailey to talk about the workshops and so on , so we 've bashed out the format and er , and what we think we 'd like to do , but it 's partly dependent on D T I , because it is their event , and we want to be seen to hijack it . |
| 22 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 23 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight . |
| 26 | Well I 've heard quite a lot of it so why I should bring the subject up then everyone started talking about it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | and erm , we 've , we 've sorted out the balance up till the end of December , so they actually owed us money , even though |
| 29 | Erm and that 's it we 've sorted out the reaction . |
| 30 | Now , ’ he went on briskly , ‘ you 've sorted out the files ? |