Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 2 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 3 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 4 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 5 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 6 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 7 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 9 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 10 | You 've looked it up in the Titmarsh have you ? |
| 11 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 12 | do n't worry , it 's , it 's in the grass and she 's just picked it up in the heat wave . |
| 13 | Whoever had brought her here must have known the place ; you could n't have picked it out in a hurry . |
| 14 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 15 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 16 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 17 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember one who was literally hanging on by his fingertips when we arrived , but we 've always got them up in the end . ’ |
| 19 | I 'll see if I 've got one out in the van . |
| 20 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 21 | They had talked it over in the Rose . |
| 22 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 23 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 24 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 25 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 26 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 27 | He 's been reckon she must have locked herself up in the dark . |
| 28 | Andrew 's locked her up in a convent where no one can touch her . " |
| 29 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 30 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |