Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 2 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 3 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 5 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 6 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
| 7 | Couple of chaps at the school got booted out for that stuff and I never did get round to it . ’ |
| 8 | It is as if the loch has filled up with many different monsters , each in turn requiring consideration of its claims to be Nessie . |
| 9 | It has spilled over into this tournament because the foreign players have won it . |
| 10 | In 1861 the statistician and economist Cournot observed that ‘ the belief in philosophic truth has cooled off to such an extent that neither the public nor the academies any longer like to receive or to welcome works of this kind , except as products of pure scholarship or historical curiosity . ’ |
| 11 | System 10 may well help change that , but Sybase ca n't play the triggers now : everyone else , and even Oracle in System 10 , has caught up with such features now . |
| 12 | System 10 may well help change that , but Sybase ca n't play the triggers now : everyone else , even Oracle in Oracle7 , has caught up with such features now . |
| 13 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps I 'll be unpopular here , but in fact until you think of a way preventing vandals from vandalising the toilets , as you know , I do n't think there is , nobody has come up with any other way of doing it . |
| 15 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 16 | In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype . |
| 17 | ‘ Juval Aviv is a very astute investigator who has come up with some very plausible explanations , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has come up with some further suggestions . |
| 19 | So — the magnitude of Maria 's feelings is given to us because Duras has come up with another jealous person , whose jealousy was great enough to provoke him to murder . |
| 20 | But now Seth ( the name rhymes with ‘ gate ’ and ‘ great ’ ) has come up with another offputting concept . |
| 21 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 22 | one of the criticisms that has come out on this one book was that because the , these child adults are skilled and put into education , they maybe still illiterate , but they are street wise , they are literate of the street |
| 23 | He said at last , ‘ So what plan has come out of all this buzzing and swarming ? ’ |
| 24 | One detective said last night : ‘ It is nice to think that some happiness has come out of this . |
| 25 | Thi this is something which has come out in several places I do n't know whether the members noted it , erm the er it also touches on , on , on what my colleague said earlier and the item in paragraph V er the assumption of the demand remain much as it is , heavily towards the South East particularly Gatwick . |
| 26 | I am told that there have been further incidents since the system reopened but so far nobody has come along with any details . |
| 27 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 28 | Bernstein 's work has come in for some strong criticism recently . |
| 29 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 30 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |