Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | some Babycham and she said they 'd sat there and drank a bottle of brandy and Babycham all night she said . |
| 8 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Desperate not to have to overtake , he 'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously . |
| 11 | She 'd slept badly and felt numb with weariness and grief . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you ever wish you 'd farmed rather than going in for horses ? ’ |
| 14 | You know , pick one up and he 'd collared thus and taken me . |
| 15 | I feared as well that Mills might not be dead after all , that he 'd recovered miraculously and decided for some reason not to go to the police . |
| 16 | She 'd promised to phone Julie that night to let her know she 'd arrived safely and to check on her sister . |
| 17 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 18 | The single-deckers became known appropriately as railcoaches , a name which placed them firmly to the forefront of modern transport . |
| 19 | We left him , got dressed again and walked down the fire escape . |
| 20 | Comfort changed the water in the bowl she had filled earlier and sponged Julia 's face and neck and hands and arms again . |
| 21 | I had always felt embarrassed and had to look at my feet in the presence of anyone playing any musical instrument , and had realised once when watching Syl spitting and squinting at his oboe that this was because it was irresistibly evocative of masturbation . |
| 22 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 23 | Most of the Orphists were Cubists who had broken away and formulated new stylistic and aesthetic principles . |
| 24 | One of them had broken away and appeared to be attempting to struggle upwind . |
| 25 | He had been the first to hear the sound of the car approaching , and the quickest to identify it , for he was the only one who looked completely unsurprised as it rolled gently alongside the Aston Martin , while all the rest had checked momentarily and turned to gaze . |
| 26 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 27 | At about 2 a.m. he had fallen downstairs and slumped in a heap by the front door . |
| 28 | The fog had fallen overnight and did not seem to be showing any sign of becoming less thick . |
| 29 | You did a good job , you know , ’ and she had leaned forward and patted his cheek as though he were a well-behaved little boy . |
| 30 | Indeed , only three or four minutes into her talk , Shirley Brown had leaned across and whispered into Howard 's ear : ‘ Better than Ottawa ! ’ |