Example sentences of "get [vb pp] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 2 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 3 | It seems she let him run wild while she got on with her business — hate to think what that was — and he got nabbed by the police . |
| 4 | There was no point in being a skin if you simply got nicked by the police wherever you went . |
| 5 | And a whole host of other countries — North Korea , Chile , the Solomon Islands , Colombia — hardly ever get counted by the practitioners of the dismal science , despite their admirably Pacific qualities . |
| 6 | We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market . |
| 7 | Tell me Mojo , when your kid got snatched by the aliens , was he wearing any brand-name designer-label clothing ? ’ |