Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 2 | Indeed , had it not been constructed when it was , Peter Scott 's Wildfowl Trust situated further up river at Slimbridge would probably have lost much of its new grounds to erosion by now . |
| 3 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 4 | Get tucked up in bed with a good book |
| 5 | ‘ A broom might be useful if the wheels get clogged up with snow , ’ put in Uncle George . |
| 6 | People , Let's relax for just a sec and not get carried away with talk of 7–0 victories over twenty years ago , a lucky , boring 1–0 will do wonderfully well . |
| 7 | To check whether the relative emphases in the programme get carried over into government priorities , we can count the sentences devoted to each topic and see if these relate over time to spending in various areas . |
| 8 | Many children and young people get caught up in crime . |
| 9 | ‘ Individually a few have done , ’ said his new colleague Sarah , ‘ but they get squeezed back into line by the West . ’ |
| 10 | She says for every ten acres used for a house 30 acres actually get used up in building pavements roads and so on . |
| 11 | Redundant handles scrape along the ground like entrails and get tangled up in pushchair wheels and unsuspecting dogs ' legs . |
| 12 | Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club . |
| 13 | yeah for a specific part of the body , B , a sex party or C , a device for separating dogs who get locked together during sex ? |
| 14 | Oh , dogs who get locked together during sex |
| 15 | He , too , was quiet during the drive back , but as he pulled in outside her flat he said thoughtfully , as if they were continuing a conversation , ‘ Of course , some guys get invited up for coffee . ’ |
| 16 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 17 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 18 | Once you get asked round to dinner , you have to ask back . |
| 19 | Since when did metal creepy-crawlies get kitted out with stereo systems ? |
| 20 | He brought , on the one hand , an attitude and , on the other , a brace of new writers to the paper who form part of the backbone of today 's NME , a place where people argue , fight , get drunk and get worked up about pop under the benevolent and sardonic regime of the mohicanned tartar of rock publishing , Danny Kelly . |
| 21 | Low-growing crocuses and irises will be easier to manage than full-size daffodils , which get beaten about by wind in exposed situations . |
| 22 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 23 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 24 | It 's about fat children who get sent away to camp |
| 25 | Men get sent back from specialist posts to uniform duties as a punishment and the strength of this metaphorical move downwards or backwards ( you can never move ‘ up ’ or ‘ forwards ’ into uniform ) is not lost on young officers . |
| 26 | When you plead guilty and you get sent in on remand , then you get treated like a sentenced prisoner , because you 're guilty . |
| 27 | They also stay drunk longer if they are on the pill but get drunk slower during menstruation . |
| 28 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 29 | The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge . |
| 30 | Inside the parcel was a battery-operated vibrator that had somehow become switched on during transit . |