Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails . |
| 2 | Forgive 'N Forget started at 7–2 , with Combs Ditch 9–2 , Run And Skip 15–2 and Wayward lad 8–1 . |
| 3 | To Bustin , paint is alive , like skin , ‘ it can be peeled back , or remain covered . |
| 4 | To Bustin , paint is alive , like skin , ‘ it can be peeled back , or remain covered . |
| 5 | It 's a pretty bizarre film , but it 's not dark or mean spirited in its intentions . |
| 6 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |
| 7 | So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Administering , as part of a cross-sectional survey , a series of attitude questions to a sample of respondents , we will not be able to determine which of them are expressing fairly firm attitudes from those responding out of some whim or other , or who have changed , or who simply want to please the interviewer or get rid of him . |
| 9 | The one thing he could n't do was sell or get rid of them . |
| 10 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 11 | I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ? |
| 12 | Be careful that you do n't end up writing a novel or get bogged down in pseudo poetry with no end in view . |
| 13 | But 31-year-old Damon Wayans grew up in a household where the unremitting rule was get funny or get ignored . |
| 14 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 15 | Boxers are less susceptible because many schools do not include the sport in their curricula and , as a consequence , many kids either start independently of school or get involved shortly after leaving school . |
| 16 | It 's similarly with similar to the situation for training while the activist would like to get straight into a role of play , the reflector wants to stand back think about it , think about how they 're going to , what they 're going to do etcetera before they actually participate or get involved . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's come into my parlour or get sliced into pieces with the lasers . ’ |
| 18 | Children fall out of them or get trapped under them , and adults get sprained wrists , strained backs and bruised shins because of their design . |
| 19 | Pull Moon is the time to pick mushrooms , kill the bacon pig or get married , bearing in mind that ‘ When the Moon 's in the full , then wit 's in the wane ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Or get married . ’ |
| 21 | Or get caught doing it . |
| 22 | Unless you fall into a frozen lake or get left on the mountainside overnight , this will not happen to you . |
| 23 | Well the majority of them are a , abused or get thrown out of mental centres , I mean , some of them just run away from home because they want to and that 's only a minority , lots of them have |
| 24 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 25 | Hit the rinkside at top speed ( or get barged into it ) and your man is left reeling in agony for a few seconds . |
| 26 | And when you are , you hide yourself in your office or get glued to the video . |
| 27 | Marxism can be a way to get rich or get laid . |
| 28 | Please leave at once , or get changed . |
| 29 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 30 | Subjectively , people may learn helplessness ( Maier and Seligman , 1976 ) ; have an external locus of control ( Rotter , 1971 ) ; or feel alienated from the world in which they live ( Seeman , 1959 ) . |