Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] [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 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 .
8 There are plenty of victims involved : thousands of brutes get routed out every week .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 As the top layers become dried out the animals move downward .
11 ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch .
12 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 .
13 ‘ And I 've pointed out the inadequacies of the underbidders , ’ said Mr Lilley blandly , in a reference to the Korean underbidder , Hyundai .
14 ( I 've filled in a couple to get you started . )
15 And then you 've filled in a works situations
16 When you 've filled in the grid , rearrange the letters in the shaded squares to make up another word to do with the Club .
17 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 .
18 I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 and erm , we 've , we 've sorted out the balance up till the end of December , so they actually owed us money , even though
22 Erm and that 's it we 've sorted out the reaction .
23 Now , ’ he went on briskly , ‘ you 've sorted out the files ?
24 I 've sorted out the background music , and have moved to frame 61 to put another actor into the movie .
25 There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away .
26 You see , we 've picked up a thief who had a cape he admits to stealing .
27 I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients
28 ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind .
29 I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT .
30 ‘ We 've picked up a distress signal .
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