Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're standing hunched up with the dull awareness of the hard graft . |
| 2 | The locals are getting wound up about the game . |
| 3 | A Bedford van stolen from Lowson Street , Darlington , has been found burnt out near the disused railway bridge in Arnold Road . |
| 4 | They 're supposed to It 's supposed to be written written down in the in the book . |
| 5 | His work led to the celebrated equation which bears his name , an equation which can be found written down at the start of every book on quantum mechanics . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want to be found washed up on the seashore with a few vital bits missing ? |
| 7 | Some amber can be found washed up onto the shores of East Anglia , but its role as a source appears to be minimal given its relative rarity in cemeteries near to that coast . |
| 8 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 9 | Liza could only suppose that , with her husband 's mechanical knowledge , the powers that be had woken up to the fact that he would be more than useful in what she referred to as ‘ an active capacity ’ . |
| 10 | The works production shops were to remain laid out in the form described for progressive building and repairing , only marginally altering over the years to accommodate new designs and techniques , such as the Stanier all steel body panelling design of the early 1930s . |
| 11 | It seems to me from what Mr in particular said , that the bottom as it were has dropped out of the market to this extent that it seems that the policy that he 's advocating , is not thirty one thousand any more , but thirty one thousand plus any amount of windfalls and recycling . |
| 12 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 13 | Nothing more was heard of Cargo , who were rumoured to be considering dropping the loaves outside Dutch territorial waters , until a month ago a number of loaves of bread were found washed up on the Dutch coast . |
| 14 | Elsewhere fully grown trees were uprooted , and were found laid out in the direction of the blast . |
| 15 | The BR stated that 200 lives were lost thrown out from the carriage door on the ‘ Inter City ’ trains ; this happened on the curve on the track , at this point the speed was 100 mph ( suicide ) . |
| 16 | A couple have taken a neglected West African monkey into their home after discovering that he was being kept tied up in a freezing garage . |
| 17 | She had seen pictures in the newspaper that Mrs Parvis had delivered every day of men and women who 'd been kept locked up in a camp till the Americans came and found them . |
| 18 | ‘ My mother especially is becoming worn out with the constant caring and the sleepless nights . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I think that 's had gone out of the coal merchanting business erm probably by nineteen twenty or earlier , I think . |
| 20 | The other lamb 's getting tangled up in the other parts of that Russian vine 's gone over . |
| 21 | Our Jan 's getting fought over at the moment . |
| 22 | The object of the game from here is to get established out on the left on the slab , but a swine of a bulge bars access to it . |
| 23 | The horse is kept locked up in a stable until it is time to be exhibited for the potential buyer or judge — or mare owner if the horse is a stallion standing at stud . |
| 24 | Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots . |
| 25 | Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling . |
| 26 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 27 | No , I think she was getting chatted up by the bloke who owned the place , really ! |
| 28 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 29 | A Ford Capri was found burned out on the A171 near Guisborough after thieves removed the radio and cassette player . |
| 30 | A stolen Ford Granada car was found burnt out in a back lane near Victoria Road , Darlington , on Sunday . |