Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 2 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 3 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 4 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 5 | until I got fixed up with a private job |
| 6 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 7 | I was brought up in Albert Street near the Hibs ground , my whole family came from that area , my dad used to sneak into the ground at night to play football on the grass at Easter Road , and I got sent off in my own backyard . |
| 8 | because , well I get paid off when the receivers come in , I was about three month out before I got sent back for and er the starting wage was , I think we actually got a wee rise , I think we were the only section that |
| 9 | ‘ I GOT kicked out of my first band and that weekend I bought a guitar and immediately started recording the first Big Black record . |
| 10 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 11 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 12 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 13 | So I got fed up with this . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I actually left Girlschool in 1989 because I got fed up with their attitude , although they 've changed now — so they tell me ! |
| 15 | ‘ I got fed up with people offering to buy me out so they could open another damn casino , ’ Aggie says . |
| 16 | It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it . |
| 17 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 18 | Nah , I got fed up with that . ’ |
| 19 | I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end . |
| 20 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 21 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 22 | " I got fed up of seeing people 1 knew getting dressed up and going to pubs or discos , because I could n't and I did n't know what the latest was — and round here that matters a lot , " said a nineteen-year-old Wigan woman with a child . |
| 23 | So I got turned out of there . ’ |
| 24 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 25 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 28 | you 'll you 'll be very comfortable with it and I can tell you now that 's one of the things that I got tied up with so |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |