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 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 You know , pick one up and he 'd collared thus and taken me .
14 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 .
15 She 'd promised to phone Julie that night to let her know she 'd arrived safely and to check on her sister .
16 We left him , got dressed again and walked down the fire escape .
17 Comfort changed the water in the bowl she had filled earlier and sponged Julia 's face and neck and hands and arms again .
18 Most of the Orphists were Cubists who had broken away and formulated new stylistic and aesthetic principles .
19 One of them had broken away and appeared to be attempting to struggle upwind .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 At about 2 a.m. he had fallen downstairs and slumped in a heap by the front door .
23 The fog had fallen overnight and did not seem to be showing any sign of becoming less thick .
24 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 .
25 Indeed , only three or four minutes into her talk , Shirley Brown had leaned across and whispered into Howard 's ear : ‘ Better than Ottawa ! ’
26 George had sat outside and listened .
27 By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection .
28 Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last .
29 Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly .
30 It has been suggested that Chaucer had come across and drew upon all of these sources for his Shipman 's Tale .
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