Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 2 | That time he played a yellow cab driver and got run over by his own cab . |
| 3 | BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio . |
| 4 | ‘ But I ca n't be held responsible for — ’ she tried to argue — and got shot down in flames for her trouble . |
| 5 | So , she went to decorate the hall and got sent out with people saying she was Jessica . |
| 6 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
| 7 | ‘ We also played badly in two one-day games and got knocked out of the NatWest and B&H as a result . ’ |
| 8 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 9 | Her hair came loose at the back where she rolled her head against the cushions and the locks slipped down against her neck and got cried on to as well . |
| 10 | Nobody saw it happen , but I think most likely he was fighting and got caught up on something . |
| 11 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 12 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 13 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 14 | Kee pulled off another brilliant save and United hung on for victory . |
| 15 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 16 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 17 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 18 | Nails had woken up abruptly and been angry at being discovered , and had gone out into the grey morning without any conversation beyond the threat about pulping Hoomey if he split . |
| 19 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 20 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 21 | They had n't found anything , and had gone back to their usual haunts . |
| 22 | To finance the French war effort in 1949 had cost them , in US terms , $500 m. — which was greater than the estimated French budgetary deficit for the year — and had eaten up over two-thirds of the annual total of US aid to France . |
| 23 | She and Antonietta had begun to talk about fashion and materials and had moved on to curtains when Gennaro returned . |
| 24 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 25 | Now he was back in his hovel and naked , lying next to a girl who was having a baby and had moved in with him on that account . |
| 26 | It can be likened to becoming ‘ them ’ or no longer being ‘ us ’ , for I had further increased my distance from the working lives of the ‘ real polises ’ and had moved out of their known world to become an outsider , a liminal mover . |
| 27 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 28 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 29 | Young people of the late sixties and early seventies who were more affluent , had more time and had grown up with an expectation of seeing more of the world , were able to travel far more easily than previous generations . |
| 30 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |