Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 2 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 3 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 4 | JUST WHEN you 'd given up on Italian House , along come more chattering piano breaks and gusty female vocals to drag you back onto your feet . |
| 5 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 6 | She felt pressured and persuaded her clients to sell out of stocks they 'd picked up from various licensed dealers . |
| 7 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 8 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 9 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 10 | Last night 's mess and a more tidy visit this afternoon when he came to see whether we 'd stocked up with illegal drugs on our trip to Nice . ’ |
| 11 | That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee |
| 12 | They 'd climbed down to rocky secluded coves and bathed in crystal-clear waters and picnicked in shady pine forests . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
| 18 | Alexandra , sorting through the enormous bundle of charitable appeals that Aunt Emily kept bound up with blue tape , asked absently , ‘ What is it ? |
| 19 | The Committee considered such appointments preferable to more covert arrangements whereby certain officers became singled out as sympathetic sources of advice . |
| 20 | By ten past nine the entrance and drive-way of the Grand Hotel had filled up with eager Tories , wearing their photo-passes with all the pride of the Old Contemptibles , conference agendas to hand . |
| 21 | The Cold War had developed out of mutual suspicions , particularly over the German problem ( CORE , pp. 81–7 ) , and also out of misunderstandings . |
| 22 | Although some of them were just small farms which had developed out of native settlements , others were country houses at the centres of large estates . |
| 23 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 24 | The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year . |
| 25 | He had broken through from dramatic playing to a kind of performance , a ‘ presentation ’ , a subtle combination of personal expression and public code . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Doctor had fallen on to plush green grass . |
| 30 | These latter had fallen out of traditional summer grazing use during the present century and official encouragement ( mainly through SAFER — Societe d'Amenagement Foncie et d'Etablissement Rural ) has been given to establishing farmers ' associations for their re-use by cattle . |