Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Billy got badly wounded , did n't he ? ’ |
| 32 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 33 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 34 | 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 ! |
| 35 | Samples at regular intervals in the embalming of 25 subjects , designed to replicate varying levels of embalming operation , were taken and , coupled with sophisticated statistical tests , produced clear cut results . |
| 36 | This took place mainly in sediments of the marginal platforms which became subaerially exposed during low stands in sea-level . |
| 37 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 38 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 39 | What motivated them , whom did they represent , were they altruistic democrats or ambitious élitists ? for Soviet historians the revolutionaries of Alexander 's reign were the authentic , if Utopian , spokesmen of the peasantry , and their Bolshevik heirs became effectively fused with the proletariat . |
| 40 | The Northern state became wholly dominated by protestant loyalists and became extremely coercive in its dealings with the substantial catholic — nationalist remnant within its borders . |
| 41 | One group of subjects ( labelled ‘ Control ’ in the figure ) experienced only reinforced conditioning trials . |
| 42 | As Big Black got better known , they acquired a reputation for oddness . |
| 43 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 44 | Gradually film production became their main preoccupation , but only Cecil Hepworth became sufficiently involved to continue after the industry had hit its first crisis . |
| 45 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 46 | no need for painkillers he was that surprised , he was that surprised the way , of the way he did it , he got brutally treated with |
| 47 | Judaism became suddenly known — and respectable . |
| 48 | But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned . |
| 49 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 50 | They became so engrossed in their chattering , that they did not notice a customer who came up behind them . |
| 51 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 52 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 53 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 54 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 55 | In it , he imagines what would happen to London if it became so choked with cars that no-one could move . |
| 56 | Terry Wogan became so absorbed with her that he ran the interview into the closing music , leaving him scant time to promote his next programme — very unusual . |
| 57 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 58 | He could never understand why June became so irritated by his ‘ never reading the directions ’ . |
| 59 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 60 | A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications . |