Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 3 | I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . " |
| 4 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 5 | The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June . |
| 6 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 8 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 9 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 10 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 11 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 12 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 13 | In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance . |
| 14 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 15 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 16 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 17 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 18 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 19 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 20 | PERSISTENT shoplifter Anthony Thompson tried to walk out of a clothes store with £370 worth of clothing . |
| 21 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 22 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 23 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 24 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 25 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 26 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 27 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 28 | Every now and then he stopped to peer out through a slit in the tent wall arid check that Jacques Devraux was still seated with the American hunting party at the table in the canter of the clearing . |
| 29 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 30 | Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off , then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back . |