Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 2 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 3 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 4 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 5 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 6 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 7 | They got fed up with that . |
| 8 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 9 | Nah , I got fed up with that . ’ |
| 10 | I was that for about , I soon got fed up with that job . |
| 11 | whatever so there was something to keep them occupied and erm you know have a bag and as soon as they got fed up with that right you 'd get something else out to take their interest and |
| 12 | Americans suddenly got fed up with all these Russians who were n't Nureyevs . |
| 13 | Our man got fed up with this nonsense . |
| 14 | So I got fed up with this . |
| 15 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 16 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 17 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 18 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 19 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 20 | He a attended courses , and on a couple of occasions he 'd travelled down with another officer to collect prisoners . |
| 21 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 22 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 23 | He 'd limped along under some EEC scheme which paid you to employ the unemployable until the equipment had vanished overnight and BDM became Bankrupt , Desperate and Melancholy . |
| 24 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |
| 25 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 27 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 28 | He 'd missed out on all that because of the war , and he never tired of dropping references to ‘ noughth week ’ and ‘ encaenia ’ and ‘ schools ’ and May Balls . |
| 29 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 30 | Why did you attack them ? ) ; but as she opened her eyes again her whole mind seemed drawn away from such matters , towards the warrior who stood before her . |