Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 2 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 9 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 10 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 11 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 12 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 13 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 14 | I 'm terribly sorry everything got so buggered up . |
| 15 | The four-year-old has always been highly strung and Hiner added : ‘ He got so worked up that the French vets could n't examine him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He got so worked up he had to ask to use the toilet . |
| 17 | Yes but , yes but you see they got so mixed up that the , |
| 18 | Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee . |
| 19 | With the advent of the General Theory the whole of the 43′ residual could be explained to within observational uncertainties , and this was a major success for the General Theory , a success it has since built on . |
| 20 | In fairness to all three photographers , much of the interview material was old ( to include footage of Burrows ) and McCullin , and Shawcross pointed out , has since grown up . |
| 21 | His hair has since grown back . |
| 22 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 23 | He has since gone on as librarian and as professor of art history to write standard books on eleventh-century illumination in Normandy , Flemish illumination in the 1480s , Italian illumination of the Renaissance , insular illumination from the sixth century , English illumination of the thirteenth century , and many other far-ranging studies and catalogues and exhibitions . |
| 24 | Lorcan Wyer who has since gone on to become one of the most stylish jockeys in England was associated with most of the Scott winners in those days . |
| 25 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 26 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 27 | Early on , the Congress won the right to control Russia 's central bank , which has since kept on printing money with which to subsidize bankrupt enterprises , thereby undermining Yeltsin 's efforts to engineer economic reform . |
| 28 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 29 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 30 | A Japanese company has since taken out a 17-year patent on the chemical . |