Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Oh , has it gone round a bit ?
2 Has he watered down the stock ?
3 And has anyone picked up a copy of The new Square Ball ?
4 It must have been , probably had them taken on a Monday then .
5 It looks the same to me , until he 's had it cut back a bit .
6 We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before .
7 We 're talking about a lot of money here , that has been spent , and has continued to be spent , and the sooner we get it sorted out the better , and I 'd like to see it on the agenda of the next budget review committee , which would prior to the policy committee , I believe next , and so we could perhaps augment er , Mr 's report with some findings of our own .
8 Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity .
9 Yes we got her moved out a little bit earlier .
10 But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own
11 You did n't actually let them run up a big bill , you would you would go with them .
12 You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name !
13 I 'd like to get it sorted out a bit for him really before the summer starts
14 You have to get yourself worked up a little bit , or you do n't give your best . ’
15 She said if I could get us chucked outside the cinema , chucked out the cinema cos Billy said he 'd get us chucked out the cinema for , she goes and we can all pretend we do n't them .
16 Maxim had them set up a few yards away , thanked the boys gravely , and they sat down .
17 ‘ I was quite lucky to get my degree , had I gone up a year later I probably would n't have done .
18 But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring .
19 Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ?
20 Had you flown up the chimney like the wicked old witch ? I did n't think so , somehow .
21 Had you picked up the skills by watching your mother ? ’
22 English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals .
23 This is my first letter to this magnificent mailing networky thing ( except it is'nt really because i had one sent back the other day , but that s another story ) This is also going to be my last for a while as I 'm going back home to newcastle tomorrow .
24 By the time she had herself sorted out the animal was standing like a rock and Felipe was grooming it steadily and expertly .
25 Had they stewed up a supper of some giant arachnid for Tundrish ?
26 Why had they held up the train ?
27 Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body .
28 Why had he gone up the train himself to get it stopped if he had a walkie-talkie ?
29 Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different .
30 I had it turned up a bit too loud .
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