Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
| 3 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 4 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 5 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 6 | Britain 's partners became so fed up with Margaret Thatcher 's strident opposition to economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and to political union that she was left utterly isolated at last October 's Rome summit . |
| 7 | Her husband , Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself . |
| 8 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 9 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 10 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 11 | His mother Alison , 34 , got so fed up with seeing her son in tears she kept him away from Penrhys Junior School in Rhondda , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 12 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 13 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 14 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 15 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 17 | Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 20 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 21 | On hearing of the don 's disappearance , she 'd naturally rushed up to Oxford in the hope of tracking down her precious notes . |
| 22 | ‘ In the Half Moon , the day before yesterday , the man who seemed so fed up about our having this cottage was called ‘ My lord — Mr Smith ’ . |
| 23 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 24 | An innocent who 'd somehow wandered down into the rat run , just asking to get bitten . |
| 25 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 26 | stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and . |
| 27 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 28 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |
| 29 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 30 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |