Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 4 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 8 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 9 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 10 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 11 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 12 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 13 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 14 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 15 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 16 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 17 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 18 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 19 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 20 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 21 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 22 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 23 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 24 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 25 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 26 | An argument has broken out over the royalty rate paid to artists for each copy of both DCC and another new format , MiniDisc . |
| 27 | With the plunge in cost , a major outbreak of phone wars has broken out across the country , with dealers offering spectacular cut-price deals . |
| 28 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 29 | A LIVELY debate has broken out among the knot of people gathered in the GMTV studio concerning the future of Britain 's newest breakfast television channel . |
| 30 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |