Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my burns scraped and that hurts quite a lot . |
| 2 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 3 | When the colonists returned from the New World they found their homeland drowned and their kinsmen dead . |
| 4 | She found her eyes drawn and caught in his dark gaze . |
| 5 | In the two months remaining Fabia got her cases packed and repacked and purchased a Czechoslovakian-English phrase book . |
| 6 | But they got their fingers burned and lost a lot of money . |
| 7 | He twisted his head left and right before looking anxiously at Rebecque . |
| 8 | When it rained their branches swayed and hissed with a sound like that of the ocean spilling over some distant shore . |
| 9 | She heard her name called and saw Alan Markby in his green weatherproof on the far side of the square beckoning to her . |
| 10 | They saw James Lambert push himself to his feet , heard his voice strained and husky say : |
| 11 | I just kept my mouth shut and watched what was going on . |
| 12 | To his puzzlement , however , she kept her eyes averted and would n't look at him . |
| 13 | Maggie kept her eyes closed and felt incapable of worrying . |
| 14 | When he died his wife re-married and the children took the new family name , Burrows . |
| 15 | Last month saw his dreams shattered and his printing business in ruins . |
| 16 | Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it . |
| 17 | As a student at Smoky Hill High School , Denver , Slater wore his hair spiked and purple , and was suspended for sporting a Sid Vicious T-shirt depicting a swastika . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , well , ’ said Bella , ‘ if you kept your mouth shut and listened a bit more you might have noticed . |
| 19 | Bill frequently got his fingers burnt and even now he wonders if his servicing procedure was strictly legal , but at least the navigator was happy . |
| 20 | And she says her day with Becky and the team was a revelation : ‘ The Granada Reports people came to my house to film me in some of my own clothes and then took me to the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes where I had my hair styled and my make-up done , and then tried on lots of different outfits . |
| 21 | A year and half ago I had my hair permed and did n't like it . |
| 22 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 23 | It was me who had my neck broken and me who is still suffering . |
| 24 | If employees , consumers , and other corporate victims had their awareness sharpened and supported by trade unionism , consumerism , and environmentalism , and if the state and legal institutions could be shamed into closing the gap between lofty principles and tawdry practices , then some of these old ideas could be put into effective operation . |
| 25 | This did not endear him to his colleagues : ‘ At that time , women were automatically shaved , given enemas , had their membranes ruptured and were given foetal monitoring . |
| 26 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 27 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 28 | Two journalists investigating the allegations had their homes raided and notes confiscated by police in the weeks prior to the publication of the report . |
| 29 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 30 | I noticed , in the afternoon , that two members of the bench had their eyes closed and appeared to be asleep . ’ |