Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardships that they faced and shared brought both family stresses and personal dilemmas , but their activities undoubtedly prolonged the strike in many places . |
| 2 | He slid fifty feet down a chimney , and became wedged there . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the information leaked and became known locally . |
| 4 | The business grew from about the middle of the eighteenth century and became concentrated in and around Kendal , with seven mills grinding snuff ( which is powdered tobacco ) at one time . |
| 5 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 6 | That time he played a yellow cab driver and got run over by his own cab . |
| 7 | He had got rid of Ken Livingstone from Labour 's national executive committee , and got rid too of Labour 's unilateralist nuclear policy . |
| 8 | BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio . |
| 9 | ‘ But I ca n't be held responsible for — ’ she tried to argue — and got shot down in flames for her trouble . |
| 10 | He asked her to sign his wretched petition on Friday after he asked me , and got sent away with a flea in his ear . |
| 11 | So , she went to decorate the hall and got sent out with people saying she was Jessica . |
| 12 | We got full houses ( it was only the bar seating 65 ) and got asked back . |
| 13 | two pints , two pints of beer before lunch mind you times were hard , that 's why I did n't bother having any thing , I always went home weekends and got stocked up and every thing , every other one we got boarders in |
| 14 | Went in there and went and got dressed so Mary was up then so when I got back downstairs the er breakfast , my breakfast was on the table . |
| 15 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , I 'm sorry I could n't get through to you on Thursday evening , but I did try , and got cut off . |
| 17 | And got blown away right . |
| 18 | Wearing an open-faced helmet , I joined Simon at the Escort , climbed into the stripped-down cockpit over supporting struts and got strapped in . |
| 19 | I just posed the question : ‘ When was the last time you were on a donkey and got sucked off ? ' ’ |
| 20 | A simple pot-au-feu is typical of the real old Provençal cooking of the days before Provençal specialities became chic restaurant food and got fussed up and transferred into goodness knows what fantasies . |
| 21 | He tried to molest some poor girl at the Shakespeare School and got thrown out . |
| 22 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 23 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 24 | ‘ We also played badly in two one-day games and got knocked out of the NatWest and B&H as a result . ’ |
| 25 | The right leg seems to be the worst — looks as if he was crouching and got knocked sideways by the bumper , then run over , ’ Ben said briskly . |
| 26 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 27 | Her hair came loose at the back where she rolled her head against the cushions and the locks slipped down against her neck and got cried on to as well . |
| 28 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 29 | Nobody saw it happen , but I think most likely he was fighting and got caught up on something . |
| 30 | Mother went to visit her relatives in Hungary , near Szeged , and got caught there when the Russians advanced . |