Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got chucked out for singing that . |
| 2 | They got caught up in fighting . |
| 3 | He never knew what these special things were and tried to find out by sneaking down there at night , but the shed door was always locked . |
| 4 | Goodman tried to find out by demanding to know how many refugee children had been baptised since they had arrived in this country . |
| 5 | I tried to help out by looking at the putts , but he still did n't really need me . |
| 6 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 7 | There were two separate rushes and someone tried to walk out without paying one of Sarah 's tickets . |
| 8 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 9 | VENTRILOQUIST Mike Dennett had a drink too many after he got fed up with listening to his wife Gladys . |
| 10 | I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end . |
| 11 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 12 | " I got fed up of seeing people 1 knew getting dressed up and going to pubs or discos , because I could n't and I did n't know what the latest was — and round here that matters a lot , " said a nineteen-year-old Wigan woman with a child . |
| 13 | Julie had asked him what was going on but he 'd rushed out without telling her , mumbling only that it was important and that he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 14 | The entire vast enterprise lurched into uneasy motion at last , in the first days of September , in the strange , ominous hush of the end of that disastrous summer , while France sat mute and made no sign , and the Scots , for all their gadfly raids , seemed to hold off from testing the defences of the north . |
| 15 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 16 | It was only a long-weekend break , perhaps , but after the never-ending block of work she 'd taken on since turning freelance she was more than ready for the rest . |
| 17 | ‘ Time and again , they said things like : ‘ I ca n't tell my Mum because she would n't believe me ’ or ‘ I told another teacher but I just got told off for telling lies ’ . |
| 18 | I got told off for calling it Pakistan . |
| 19 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 20 | The threatened revolt fizzled out as Conservative critics decided to draw back from voting down the whole Budget , keeping their powder dry for future votes when the issue comes before the Commons in detail . |
| 21 | Whether by accident or design , they managed to go around without seeing any of the others and Maggie allowed herself to be selfish . |
| 22 | But her mind kept going back to singing , dancing , acting … |
| 23 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 24 | Well organised folks can book a permit to camp up to a year in advance , but we managed to get in despite having no permit when we arrived . |
| 25 | But if he went stomping by without saying anything it was a clear indication of trouble ahead . |
| 26 | She learned to stand up from sitting in a chair , and within two years she was able to walk short distances , even outside , with very little help . |
| 27 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 28 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
| 29 | He never did get around to framing it . ’ |
| 30 | never did get round to hoovering the carpet . |