Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took a liberty at 8-2 and got punished for it , ’ said Parrott . |
| 2 | The YCs got punished more than anybody else and had a really hard time . |
| 3 | And when Gittel cut my pride and my heart into pieces with her little sharp fingernails , and I let loose the dybbuk on her and got punished for it , I was neither one thing nor the other , once again . ’ |
| 4 | It is suggested that it is helpful not to emphasise the problem or disability , as some old people are reluctant to face their inability to continue to cope independently . |
| 5 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 6 | Kitchen equipment — cooker , refrigerator , washing-machine and spin-drier — should all be checked to see that they are functioning well and safely . |
| 7 | The physicists lived for the emulsion trails and double checked to see if they were interpreting them correctly . |
| 8 | In the case of a walk-in or chance guest then the room status board would be checked to see if accommodation was available . |
| 9 | The registration is checked to see if it has been correctly completed . |
| 10 | Upon receipt of a completed request form by the lexicographers the form should be checked to see whether it is acceptable . |
| 11 | First the existing geometric domain relationships will be checked to see if the relationships already exist and , if not , whether their acceptance will violate any other existing relationships . |
| 12 | The distribution of records produced by a given algorithm should be checked to see that this will not occur . |
| 13 | She had been left outside a great many pubs on warm summer evenings while models and some younger aspiring painters had occasionally checked to see if she was still there . |
| 14 | The proposal form should be checked to see if the Policyholder disclosed the illness/injury or if the complaint first occurred after inception of the policy , did the Policyholder disclose this at the appropriate renewal date . |
| 15 | Where claims involve losses in these areas during the winter period stated , they should be carefully checked to see if the clause has been complied with . |
| 16 | Other terminal word branches off this node are checked to see if they have remaining MRPA symbols which have to be distinguished from the current input by creating new non-terminals . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) The terms of issue of any convertible securities , options or warrants should be checked to see whether they confer any pre-emption rights or restrictions on new issues . |
| 18 | Security videos throughout the city centre are being checked to see if the bombers have been trapped on tape . |
| 19 | The case was adjourned until Monday for the condition of a submachine gun to be checked to see if it was capable of being fired . |
| 20 | Regularly means that we go in anyway t every six months you go and have your teeth checked to see if they 're okay . |
| 21 | Then on to the next house where they slyly accept a poster and bin it as soon as your back is turned ; and then to the next where support is promised if only your party in exchange guarantees to persecute , imprison and preferably execute certain categories of non-white-skinned people . |
| 22 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 23 | She thought that as she knew so well what her therapist would say , it was indeed a waste of money to continue seeing her . |
| 24 | You will , of course , need to continue seeing doctors for treatment . |
| 25 | Then one voice grew louder , piercing into his brain as his body became paralysed with shock and disbelief . |
| 26 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 27 | A solicitor who became paralysed after a routine jaw operation has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 28 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 29 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 30 | To harm or kill a Cobra is considered sacrilegious by many people and such an act can only' bring misfortune . |