Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took a liberty at 8-2 and got punished for it , ’ said Parrott . |
| 2 | And when Gittel cut my pride and my heart into pieces with her little sharp fingernails , and I let loose the dybbuk on her and got punished for it , I was neither one thing nor the other , once again . ’ |
| 3 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 4 | Then one voice grew louder , piercing into his brain as his body became paralysed with shock and disbelief . |
| 5 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 6 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 7 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 8 | The parallels , such as they are , between 511 and 561 , together with the arrangements made to cope with the death of Charibert , lend a spurious uniformity to the divisions of the Merovingian kingdom , but one which is , at first sight , supported by the events of 595 . |
| 9 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 10 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 11 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 12 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 13 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 14 | When you go to buy your boots or shoes , take along the socks you intend to wear for walking . |
| 15 | Differences will also arise depending on whether the figures refer to England and Wales , Great Britain ( including Scotland ) or the United Kingdom ( including Northern Ireland ) . |
| 16 | This book is about learning to enjoy eating without feeling guilty , and getting slim and healthy in the process . |
| 17 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 18 | Three particular issues were addressed : the right , under certain circumstances , to " decompile " an existing computer program a right to take necessary back-up copies a right to copy and adapt including for error correction . |
| 19 | See I , I personally in , in the past I would 've jumped on it and gone for it . |
| 20 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 21 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 22 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
| 23 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 24 | Berger also recalled last year 's Mexico Grand Prix , in which he and Nigel Mansell became embroiled in a tremendous battle during the closing stages of the race . |
| 25 | It is noticeable that the Russell-Copleston debate became embroiled in a discussion of necessary propositions , a discussion made necessary by Copleston 's desire to show Russell that the world is such that it must be the case that it has a Creator . |
| 26 | Throughout his stay at Swindon , Macari became embroiled in a series of highly public incidents . |
| 27 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 28 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 29 | Educated , urban Spaniards demanded institutional and constitutional reforms , some going so far as to favour the monarchy 's replacement by a republic ; in Catalonia and the Basque country , where distinctive languages and cultures existed , rising nationalist movements opposed the regime 's centralizing character ; in Morocco , Spain and her army became embroiled in what was to be her last colonial war ; and two mass forces of the left , socialism and anarchism , emerged to offer organized protest against the injustices of Spanish society . |
| 30 | Many town corporations resented the rival jurisdiction of ecclesiastical institutions , and on occasions their officers became embroiled in unseemly disputes with the heads of cathedrals and monastic houses ; in 1506 , for example , the sheriff and gaol-keeper of Norwich became involved in a brawl with the prior of the city 's Benedictine cathedral priory , who was seeking to rescue one of his servants recently arrested by municipal officers . |