Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 2 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 3 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 6 | It was a long time since he 'd eaten out in this style and he was shocked by the escalation of prices and VAT . |
| 7 | I thought you 'd taken off in that spaceship of yours . ’ |
| 8 | They 'd crossed a highway while there was no traffic , they 'd blundered around in damp undergrowth , scurrying away from every chirp and mysterious croak , and finally they 'd found the plastic . |
| 9 | The Joint Commission soon became bogged down in renewed argument over the eligibility of various groups for consultation , with the Russians reiterating refusal to consult rightists currently denouncing the Soviet Union vehemently and demonstrating noisily in Seoul . |
| 10 | With Taylor continuing absent from the talks " for security reasons " , debate became bogged down in procedural squabbles and by the NPFL delegation 's complaint that the front was under-represented at the conference . |
| 11 | " Earth got blown up in that one too … ah " Graham kept snapping his fingers . |
| 12 | The sea had broken through in several places , and many homes are at risk from flooding . |
| 13 | Heavy fighting had broken out in late March when guerrillas of the Karen National Union ( KNU ) , supported by student dissidents , attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces . |
| 14 | Addressing the court before sentencing , and speaking in that confiding style whose quality of extreme directness made ordinary statements seem extraordinary , Gandhi took upon himself complete responsibility for ‘ the diabolical crimes of Chauri Chaura ’ and other disturbances which had broken out in recent weeks . |
| 15 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 16 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 17 | These guerrillas — Collin Gubbins had pointed out in 1939 — would be in actions usually fought ‘ at point-blank range as the result of an ambush or raid ’ . |
| 18 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 19 | Now all their colleagues craved stardom too , and almost overnight the once faceless bureaucrats had blossomed out in trendy clothes and bushy beards , and an anonymous letter was enough to get them as excited as any schoolboy . |
| 20 | As Dean Acheson had commented back in 1962 , Britain had indeed lost an empire yet failed to find a post-imperial role . |
| 21 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 22 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 23 | Mala had come out in one of her crumpled dark coveralls . |
| 24 | In voting overwhelmingly on Nov. 14 for the debate , the Supreme Soviet had come out in open revolt against its legislation being either ignored or countermanded because of administrative chaos and the so-called " war of laws " with the republics . |
| 25 | But if ‘ Report To The Floor ’ had come out in 1982 , I would have liked it . ’ |
| 26 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 27 | Union members had turned out in such numbers because they were angry at the way in which they had to deliver services to the public without adequate resources . |
| 28 | It was n't so bad , not after the things Jazzbeaux had seen back in Spanish Fork . |
| 29 | Hippies believed in love and peace , they had said back in 1967 . |
| 30 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |