Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers in fact turns out to list the authors as Clark , Cox and Allison ; The other referred to research carried out in 1944 . |
| 2 | If only he 'd got caught up in politics , or good works , or become a governor of his old school , he 'd have been taken out of himself more ? |
| 3 | White flung the pair of lemon panties he 'd had scrunched up in his coat pocket on to the arm of the chair I was sitting in . |
| 4 | Her brain , as usual , seemed to have seized up in Roman 's overpowering company . |
| 5 | Summer seemed to have flitted by in a space of days . |
| 6 | ‘ Considering you told me that you 'd taken supplies on in Oban and that you managed perfectly well all of yesterday , and that your boat is.probably stiff with tins and even bottles- ’ |
| 7 | If that happened , or you started to get bogged down in an episode , you could always use the Doctor as a diversion . |
| 8 | Only occasionally ( as in the 1830s and the 1870s ) did conflict burst out in an overt and organized expression of discontent . |
| 9 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 10 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 11 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 12 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 13 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 14 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 15 | After suffering their worst defeat in any general election since 1968 , the Socialists yesterday repeated their call , to disillusioned left-wing voters and those who had abstained to turn out in force on Sunday , to block too sweeping a right-wing victory . |
| 16 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 17 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 18 | Almost inevitably the issue had become caught up in a tangled web of local education politics . |
| 19 | When the projectile that had escaped turned up in the mud all was explained : it was a 4.5mm , low-power ammunition for a small pistol . |
| 20 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 21 | All the things which I had feared turned up in a relentless progression . |
| 22 | I had wanted to curl up in my sleeping-bag on the ground . |
| 23 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to . |
| 25 | It must also be admitted that the fact that some of the companies insuring our policy had ceased to pay out in the wake of the LUI failure , also helped our resistance . |
| 26 | And because it was his territory , Trent retained hope , despite his fear of Louis ; as he had retained hope back in Ireland under the inspection of the leader of the terrorist unit that he had infiltrated . |
| 27 | They had to get back to their dormitories before anyone awoke , but turning round , Endill saw lights had started coming on in the school . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , they have to hide the Cruise missiles somewhere , ’ I said , zipping up my fleece-lined leather jacket against the rain which had started coming down in ominous big spits . |
| 29 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 30 | Nor did this brief fashion for working-class subjects derive directly from their critical campaigns , except insofar as Richardson had directed Look Back in Anger on the stage in 1956 , and that production marked the cultural watershed from which a fashion for ‘ realism ’ seemed to flow . |