Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 2 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 3 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |
| 4 | Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume . |
| 5 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 6 | Sandy Scratchley 's patrol was sent out to raid petrol dumps in the El Daba area and found itself caught up in the back yard of the retreating Germans . |
| 7 | Penelope Huntley , who would very much have liked to have gone on with the discussion , found herself swept out of the office , and walked slowly down the road , flushed with a mixture of disappointment and excitement . |
| 8 | As the day of the wedding drew closer , the young Campbell lass found herself caught up in the arrangements . |
| 9 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 10 | Six Broadstairs matrons attempting to shop at Marchesi 's the confectioners , two errand boys buying bloaters from Mr Goodman the fishmonger , a few afternoon revellers strolling out from the Dolphin Inn and an eager group from the Tourist Cycling Club staying at the Balmoral Bijou Hotel found themselves swept along with the crowd as they pursued their leaders down Harbour Street under the ancient York Gate ( which being without specific Dickensian associations hardly received a glance ) . |
| 11 | Reactionary trade union officials who had steadfastly declared that they would not stand on a public platform with revolutionary workers , found themselves caught up in the stream and carried forward to participation in great united front unemployed demonstrations . |
| 12 | When Webern conducted student concerts I often found myself caught up in the riots . |
| 13 | His run at Haydock last time is best ignored as George Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails until too late . |
| 14 | I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong . |
| 15 | His wayward energies soon got him kicked out of the pop club , but ‘ Shakin' ’ is a magnificent entry , an untrammelled mother-humper of a tune . |
| 16 | Marie felt herself caught up in the intensity of the old woman 's hatred . |
| 17 | His rich vein of form has come after a winter which saw him left out of the West Indies World Cup team … their loss has been Gloucestershire 's gain . |
| 18 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 19 | So he got out and he looked underneath and the drive shaft had fell off so he got it towed back to the garage wherever this garage was and they had a look at it and all the head were loose you could waggle them about ! |
| 20 | She tried to recall his face , but got it mixed up with the actor , Edward James Olmos . |
| 21 | he got it taken out to the back garden is n't it ? |
| 22 | She remembered him propped up by the nurses , waving his little hands about . |
| 23 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 24 | It was A … who arranged the chairs this evening , when she had them brought out on the veranda . |
| 25 | After no more than two dozen steps , a terrible dizziness had me flopped down in the darkness . |
| 26 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 27 | My social education would have advanced rapidly too , had I lived in with the school . |
| 28 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 29 | As soon as he heard the story , John Coffin had himself taken back to the police centre dealing with the case . |
| 30 | Erm in nineteen fourteen , erm 's , who had a water turbine er as their sort of main motive power for their er milling operations , erm put in or had had , er not only this line , siding , but they had one put in round the back here , erm because that was to provide coal , for steam boilers which were er put in to augment the water power . |