Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kylie and Blamey were forces to wait agonising days before the trio agreed to sit down and talk about writing a song . |
| 2 | And they got to go down and get another one . |
| 3 | You know , usually I got to go in and tuck her in and that . |
| 4 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 5 | A good deal has happened since that important Church meeting last June when we agreed to go ahead and purchase the building from the Church of Scotland for £1 . |
| 6 | I had developed an extreme closeness with two of the doctors , and I called them , and they both agreed to go in and evaluate Ron 's condition and get back to me , and I said I would abide by their decision . |
| 7 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 8 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 9 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 10 | After that , Mabel got carried away and bought some china cups — on sale at bargain prices , because they had lost their matching saucers — and Florrie bought a cobweb brush with a special extending cane handle , for getting up into those awkward comers of the ceiling . |
| 11 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 12 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 13 | She saw a haunted house , a superstition she had perhaps used for her own account , and he saw something more human , a complex web of relationships , interlocking and interacting in a way he could not yet fathom , and in which people got caught up and destroyed . |
| 14 | However , the landlord took pity and Sally was the one not too mud bespattered to go in and fetch the drinks — meanwhile the horse trod on Ian 's toe … |
| 15 | I stopped knitting again and stared . |
| 16 | Rostov tried to sit up and found that he could not . |
| 17 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 18 | He tried to stand up and fell back with a little snort of pain . |
| 19 | In the Community Service section Martin helped to set up and run a bronze award training scheme at the Bradford centre . |
| 20 | They helped Gurder up and trotted under the rows of seats with him between them . |
| 21 | One person stopped speaking altogether and sat looking grim . |
| 22 | She stopped speaking abruptly and stared at Clare with a look of fixed terror in her eyes . |
| 23 | The remains of the robbers getaway car found burnt out and abandoned 2 miles from the scene of the attack . |
| 24 | Those small producers who were so intimidated by the problems of securing significant distribution that they simply carried on producing small , cheap pictures which , according to Hepworth , ‘ helped to build up and succour the very evil which was bringing about their downfall ’ , inevitably went under first . |
| 25 | Formed in 1981 ULSS helped set up and launch the first Scottish Amicable unit-linked policy — the Capital Investment Bond . |
| 26 | This chapter is a brief distillation of a few of the themes in that book , but really I 'd almost rather you stopped reading now and switched to The Extended Phenotype ! |
| 27 | The crowd was delighted , and the Sellswords again had to push back those who tried to lean forward and seize her . |
| 28 | We tried to get through and ask him the question on air . |
| 29 | If you have , you will know how weak your muscles were when first you tried to get up and walk again . |
| 30 | ‘ Teeny ! ’ he shouted standing up and knocking his packet of cigarettes and lighter on the floor . |