Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 3 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The remains of the robbers getaway car found burnt out and abandoned 2 miles from the scene of the attack . |
| 8 | Formed in 1981 ULSS helped set up and launch the first Scottish Amicable unit-linked policy — the Capital Investment Bond . |
| 9 | Well , in the end the inevitable happened — Illtyd got fed up and called off the engagement , and thereafter ‘ Jilted by Illtyd ’ became a byword in Hut 4 . |
| 10 | Eventually he got fed up and told them to stop bothering him and ignored their letters . |
| 11 | Voters got fed up and threw Labour out . |
| 12 | ‘ I told her you 'd given up and gone home . |
| 13 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 14 | If he 'd looked around and fixed her with his melting eyes , she might have done . |
| 15 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 16 | some Babycham and she said they 'd sat there and drank a bottle of brandy and Babycham all night she said . |
| 17 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 18 | She 'd circled the block until she 'd found the side alley where the stage door was located , and then after hiding her bag in a dark spot behind a big wheeled trash hopper she 'd turned around and headed back to the coffee shop . |
| 19 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 20 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 21 | On the day I moved in my Mother had warned me not to let him rule my life like he 'd ruled my Father 's , but it never occurred to me to disobey him and seemed natural to follow the ‘ week planner ’ he 'd written out and pinned to the notice-board in the kitchen : Monday — Washing Tuesday — Ironing Wednesday — Youth Club etc . |
| 22 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 23 | Toby stood at my elbow , and when I 'd hung up and told him said , with a strange urgency , almost like despair : " No , no , not this Sunday , for Christ 's sake , ca n't you get out of it ? " |
| 24 | ‘ Found you 'd hung up and did n't put her receiver on properly , ’ suggested Iris . |
| 25 | Desperate not to have to overtake , he 'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously . |
| 26 | That was after I 'd sold out and sent Julia to … overseas . |
| 27 | She 'd slept badly and felt numb with weariness and grief . |
| 28 | When he 'd got up and gone out , Dr Frome said to his wife : |
| 29 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 30 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |