Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 3 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 4 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 5 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 6 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 8 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 11 | I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . " |
| 12 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 13 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 14 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 15 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 16 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 17 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 19 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 20 | The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June . |
| 21 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 22 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 27 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 28 | The Algiers agreement failed to work out to the satisfaction of either side . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 30 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |