Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 2 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 4 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 5 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 6 | Gradually , from the toe , that was July , and I got paralysed up to my hips and er I had no relations or anybody there , but Toc H were very good . |
| 7 | Was I you , I 'd stay tucked up in bed . |
| 8 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 9 | ‘ Or got eased out by me , to put it bluntly . |
| 10 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 12 | ‘ Oops , somebody else 's card , got mixed up with mine , ’ says Brian Everthorpe , exchanging the card with another . |
| 13 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 14 | Oh , its a pity you ever got mixed up with him . |
| 15 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 16 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 17 | I got mixed up with . |
| 18 | It 's it just means we go like we got mixed up with our zero and we should have started lower down but we 're not going to change it now . |
| 19 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 20 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 21 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 22 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was out last night I got mixed up in something . |
| 24 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 25 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 27 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 28 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 29 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 30 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |