Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 2 | The generalized conclusion ( first widely popularized by Martinson ( 1974 ) ) that ‘ nothing works ’ became widely accepted less because of its validity than because it was a message suited to its time , and because the disappointment of the high hopes invested in reform led to an over-reaction against the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 3 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 4 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 5 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 6 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 7 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 8 | In 1072 William led a large army up to Stirling , forded the river there , and rode on to join up with his fleet entering the Tay . |
| 9 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 10 | Now you have got the basics under your belt , read on to find out all your discount options . |
| 11 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 12 | That was when Kanga , who owns a fashion firm , hopped in to try on and buy the lookalike number . |
| 13 | Another mortar team has moved into the orchard this evening , 13th June , and got down to work straight away by sending off several rounds of high explosives in quick succession in the direction of the enemy positions . |
| 14 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 15 | The boundaries laid down followed fairly closely those of the perambulation of 1300 . |
| 16 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 17 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 18 | Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself . |
| 19 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 20 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 21 | It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes . |
| 22 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 23 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 24 | so if that run is just tomorrow then we just got in did n't we ? |
| 25 | A few people got terribly carried away , leaping up to voice their guilt at John being kidnapped and saying that it should have been them . |
| 26 | He recovered sufficiently to carry on racing — although the car required rewelding ! |
| 27 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 28 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 29 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 30 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |