Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century .
2 I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks .
3 Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach .
4 Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head .
5 Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake .
6 Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development .
7 I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while …
8 And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins .
9 One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging .
10 It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer .
11 Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl .
12 We got squeezed out of the middle . ’
13 ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust .
14 It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’
15 We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape .
16 His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster .
17 Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected .
18 Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected .
19 You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that .
20 His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame .
21 One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up .
22 But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) .
23 Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ?
24 It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group .
25 In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane .
26 A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt .
27 I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round .
28 I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on .
29 It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’
30 Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board .
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