Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] in the " 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 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 've looked it up in the Titmarsh have you ? |
| 6 | do n't worry , it 's , it 's in the grass and she 's just picked it up in the heat wave . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember one who was literally hanging on by his fingertips when we arrived , but we 've always got them up in the end . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll see if I 've got one out in the van . |
| 12 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 13 | They had talked it over in the Rose . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He 's been reckon she must have locked herself up in the dark . |
| 19 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 've brought them up in the fear of the Lord . ’ |
| 21 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 22 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 23 | After Gary Blissett had pulled one back in the 78th minute , substitute Marcus Gayle missed a great chance four minutes from the final whistle to level it . |
| 24 | After Ronnie McCullough had pulled one back in the opening minute of the second half , the Comrades dominated until the finish without being able to find an equaliser . |
| 25 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 26 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 27 | We should have stuck it out in the taxi . ’ |
| 28 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 29 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 30 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |