Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 2 | Other nomes never came in , because it was drafty and stunk unpleasantly . |
| 3 | Since 1969 they have attended some 38,000 incidents and neutralised approximately 4,460 IEDs . |
| 4 | A strike of social workers is not only much more limited in its impact , but affects mostly the poor and underprivileged section of the community whose political muscle is very weak and limited anyway , even though the effect of such a strike on particular individuals or families may be very grave indeed . |
| 5 | There was also a regular police force , but during the first half of the nineteenth century it was small , poorly paid , and limited largely to Colombo , Galle , and areas where there were coffee plantations . |
| 6 | From the 16th to the 19th century , in some places even into the present century , exploitation of polar resources has been largely unmanaged , and limited only by market satiation . |
| 7 | The contribution of primary prevention is small and limited mainly to avoiding single gene defects , teratogens ( by rubella vaccination , for example ) and teratogenic effects of maternal disorders . |
| 8 | Well there 's water provided , there 's showers provided , there 's , there 's clean air is provided , there 's dirty areas and it was all well planned and segregated and , and partitioned off and curtained off and so on and , and it does work . |
| 9 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 10 | As a result , it has spent £100,000 on hardware and software , reallocated staff , and centralised both core management and administrative staff . |
| 11 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 12 | They had homes and jobs in their own country but these have been burned and stripped away from them through no fault of their own . |
| 13 | On the other hand , churches with poor workmanship , of small size , and altered rather than rebuilt , may well indicate poor localities , or a lack of interest in the church . |
| 14 | The catalysed fusion process outlined above was explained and formulated on or prior to 4/7/86 ( April ) |
| 15 | Several proprietary fertilizers , mixed and formulated specifically for roses , show a marked bias in favour of one or other element . |
| 16 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 17 | I had seen and heard enough . |
| 18 | ‘ I am very dissatisfied with everything I have seen and heard so far . |
| 19 | If someone goes away with good memories of what they have seen and heard then they will come back and bring their family and friends . ’ |
| 20 | They would be bound to seek the help of the pollsters , and we 've all seen and heard quite enough of them . |
| 21 | She had been wary and guarded before , but not jumpy — not with that purely feminine type of nervousness . |
| 22 | She held the basket on her knee and revelled in its contents , the treats she had ordered and checked meticulously , even down to a handful of sugar plums in their nests of perforated gold paper . |
| 23 | She had packed and checked out of the hotel without seeing either of the two brothers or her cousin . |
| 24 | And the needs of people with learning difficulties and their carers , above all , can not be defined and prescribed independently of the process of encouraging and helping them to welcome opportunities and change . |
| 25 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh wondered why it was that , when walking towards the sea , there came a moment when its roar suddenly increased as if a menace , quiescent and benign , had suddenly realized and gathered up its power . |
| 27 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 28 | Anger welled up in Juliet , and boiled over into words she never meant to say . |
| 29 | If boiling , the potatoes should be placed in a pan , just covered with lightly salted cold water and boiled gently until tender . |
| 30 | Others , who came year after year , went north to the sheep sales for leftovers , driving the bleating creatures south to be skinned and boiled down . |