Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Similarly those who lived alone cost more in community services than those who lived with others ( Table 6.3 ) . |
| 4 | I would have thought that hed also steer clear of mentioning old codgers , seeing as Hoddle and MAL DONAGHY ( double pfffttt ! ! ) , amongst others , turned his team over that day . |
| 5 | I might have guessed , ’ and then he uttered a string of oaths , so oddly at variance with his usual smooth and civilised manner and appearance that Sally-Anne shivered and tried again to pull away from him , but he held her more tightly than ever . |
| 6 | That ole goat used ter travel all over London ter the fights . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , I think you got just keep away from the from the centre . |
| 8 | The comment about Tape Unit 18 made above applies also to Tape Unit 19 : at first hearing it seems very difficult , but when worked on step by step it is far from impossible . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better tell just in case you 've got any thoughts . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ said his father , ‘ I think we 'd better go home to the cave . |
| 11 | B : You 'd better make straight for the bank , otherwise you 'll be too late . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , get back to sleep and tomorrow perhaps we 'd better think seriously about getting you away from here , after all . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 'd better rest here for a while , ’ she followed him out of the kitchen and into the sitting-room to tell him . |
| 14 | He replaced the receiver and said , ‘ You 'd better do enough for four . ’ |
| 15 | We 'd better stay away from here for the moment . ’ |
| 16 | You 'd better stay here with your waggon . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 18 | But she said no I 'd better come tomorrow with Paula as well . |
| 19 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 20 | Erm , you 'd better keep away from Papa . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'd better get straight to bed , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ He was convinced you 'd only gone home to England to break the news to your family , then you were coming back to marry him . |
| 23 | He could have forced the window in time , anyone could , but he seemed suddenly to think better of it . |
| 24 | She told her parents how she and Susan had bumped into the two lads from Northallerton and that they 'd all gone together to the Lobster Pot for a drink . |
| 25 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 26 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 27 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 28 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 29 | ‘ It is , ’ she agreed , then bit her lip , only seeing the trap he 'd set for her when she 'd already tumbled straight into it . |
| 30 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |