Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " 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 | See I , I personally in , in the past I would 've jumped on it and gone for it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I tell you , if I 'd have know what the content of the training was gon na be , I would 've arranged for our twelve crime prevention officers to go across there and listen to it , because there was a locksmith there that gave a lot of sound advice in relation to security of homes as well cars that really was good basic grounding for a crime prevention officer . |
| 6 | ( The national Press , in truth , remain fascinated by him . |
| 7 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 8 | No seat belt , he got stopped for it yesterday . |
| 9 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 10 | Gradually one bin became filled to its brim with heads and feet , another with slippery , gaily coloured entrails . |
| 11 | The artist , Shunichi Mizuno , became consumed with it because all his work for exhibitions was destroyed immediately afterwards . |
| 12 | For the first time in the battle the French guns ceased their uncoordinated , spasmodic flea-biting and became welded into one concentrated , fearsome weapon . |
| 13 | Angel One , who was all too aware of the probable consequences when he reported the calamitous events of the night , became irritated despite himself . |
| 14 | They soon became irritated by their inability to capture it , and turned back to diplomacy . |
| 15 | The man got trapped under his parachute when it hit the water at Holywell Bay , Newquay , Cornwall . |
| 16 | Fingers that longed to cling curled into her fists as she made to push herself away . |
| 17 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 18 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 19 | As European financial controller Ton Canta says : ‘ We felt confident that this was a company that would remain committed to its products well into the future ’ . |
| 20 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 21 | Why was it that every single time she did one little thing that was the least bit out of line she got caught at it ? |
| 22 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 23 | Oh it would n't have cost nothing , it would cost me something if I got caught in them days bloody ration . |
| 24 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 25 | Then my eyelashes got caught in his zip . |
| 26 | He had it , he got caught by he got er |
| 27 | Cuntona got a 4-match suspension , and scum got fined for their fans ’ behaviour . |
| 28 | Yet as long as France and Germany remain committed to it , the programme to give the whole European market a non-inflationary money still has bite . |
| 29 | It must 've caught on something , a thorn , a bramble , a sharp branch . |
| 30 | I got picked for my maths yesterday . |