Example sentences of "get [vb pp] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A camel is a horse which got designed by a committee . |
| 2 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 3 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 4 | ‘ We get attacked by a monster , the monster gets zapped by a flying saucer and now you fancy a chat with God Almighty . |
| 5 | Oh yeah does the little kid get smashed by a train ? |
| 6 | ‘ Go on , ’ I urged in completion , ‘ get done by a vic . ’ |
| 7 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 8 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 9 | Maybe he get maybe he gets hit by a truck into a lake and drowns . |
| 10 | Timings can be quite accurate so you could have a ‘ splodge ’ sound as a character gets hit by a custard pie . |
| 11 | If someone gets hit by a magnum bullet , he is dead . |
| 12 | ‘ We get hit by a squall , things will get busy , ’ he warned Louis and the hit squad 's leader , Mario . |
| 13 | We went to the races and watched Nolan ride Fiona 's horse Groundsel and get beaten by a length into second place , and we watched Sam ride two of Tremayne 's runners unprofitably and then win for another trainer . |
| 14 | And not since Newsweek 's 1986 cover story ‘ The Marriage Crunch ’ , which professed that single women over 40 had a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than getting married , has a general-interest magazine article caused such discussion among women . |
| 15 | Both were equally unsteady platforms for a marksman but that did n't preclude one of them getting killed by a chance shot . |
| 16 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 17 | Two of its lead investors declined to participate : MIPS because it had problems of its own and Singapore-based Wearnes Technology Pte , its manufacturing arm , because it reportedly got distracted by a PC deal with IBM . |
| 18 | If your home got hit by a tornado it would n't recover quickly either . |
| 19 | This could be expressed as ‘ A hospital is a place that I go to in order to get treated by a doctor . |
| 20 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 21 | The tent might blow away , I might get bitten by a snake , or I might not be able to pay back the £1,500 I had borrowed to finance the trip . |
| 22 | From time to time a ferret does get bitten by a rat , usually by a female defending her young , but the clash is never fatal so far as the ferret is concerned . |
| 23 | Although they may get flattened by a rainstorm , they quickly recover once the sun comes out . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're going to get hit by a hurricane , ’ he told the girl as he dropped into the cockpit and took the helm . |
| 25 | ‘ But how on earth can you get hit by a train ? ’ |
| 26 | It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten . |
| 27 | It is easy to get thrown by a detail or a minority comment , to grow elated or dejected before the full position emerges . |
| 28 | He got beaten by a shot by Kel Nagle . |
| 29 | Malcolm Penny , a Survival Anglia producer , got hooked by a hookworm and did n't feel any effect , but millions of people in parts of Africa , India , China , South America and some southern states of the US suffer from hookworm and its exhausting effects . |
| 30 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |