Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ceylon , stations ranged from those which served the elegant bungalow coastal suburbs of Colombo and those used by Europeans seeking refreshment at the hill stations or at Mount Lavinia to special ‘ coolie ’ stations , where the Tamil labour migrants introduced from South India to the tea plantations could be detrained and kept in quarantine until health requirements could be met . |
| 2 | At Bewick she would not have dreamed of sitting by a fire in idleness while her clothes were sorted and shaken and put away in drawers and cupboards , which , when opened , gave out breaths of lavender . |
| 3 | LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope . |
| 4 | Beds must be made , equipment sorted and ordered , and patients dealt with one at a time . |
| 5 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 6 | There were heaps of clothing on the floor , roughly sorted and laid out on newspaper . |
| 7 | Containers , drawers and shelves could be provided in the Home Corner , shop , etc. , so that articles can be sorted and put away . |
| 8 | Once dug and left to dry , potatoes can be sorted and stored in teachests , thick paper sacks or shallow boxes covered with sacking to keep the light from turning them green . |
| 9 | The bricks and other plastic toys then need to be sorted and fitted back into their appropriate containers . |
| 10 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 11 | Back home the data accumulated by Ivanov and his ‘ back up ’ man in the Czech delegation would be sorted and despatched for analysis . |
| 12 | Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack . |
| 13 | ‘ Food ’ : ( All kinds ) Variety of imitation foods and sweets might be sorted and shared . |
| 14 | Boxes and pots in good condition can , of course , be sorted and arranged on shelves . |
| 15 | And that 'll get it sorted and come back up |
| 16 | Bellsdyke unit introduced a new type of water-soluble membrane liner bags two years ago , which entailed a major educational input from the ICN explaining how the laundry would be sorted and bagged . |
| 17 | Let's get this thing sorted and see . |
| 18 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 19 | And buttons , zips , hooks and eyes , press studs etcetera were carefully sorted and retained . |
| 20 | But your Service wants to get it all sorted and giftwrapped for them ? |
| 21 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 22 | erm , the R A C Reflex is all sorted and paid |
| 23 | Letters had to be sent in bulk to Smolensk to be sorted and distributed . |
| 24 | Business letters and enquiries for the attention of the management or various departments should be date stamped , sorted and distributed to the appropriate departments immediately upon arrival . |
| 25 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 26 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 27 | Such problems , on the Lazarsfeldian view , can be sorted and clarified empirically only by , in this case , formulating indicators for each of the possible dimensions of the concept . |
| 28 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 29 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 30 | This weekend , as he took the fight surrounded and supported by fluttering Union Jacks , it was clear that Lennox regards himself as ‘ one of ours ’ . |