Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutch euthanasia practice is legalised and therefore becomes a collective responsibility but , as with war crimes , collective responsibility does not free the actor ( the physician ) from personal accountability . |
| 2 | One evening he was summoned to the bedside of a dying lawyer , who had first robbed and then seduced a female client . |
| 3 | Models or paintings might be made and perhaps become a similar basis for talk . |
| 4 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 5 | If attitudinal justifications , and criticisms of counter-attitudes , are based upon such common-places , then attitudes by their content are socially shared and thereby possess a social significance beyond the motivations and affective reactions of the individual attitude-holder . |
| 6 | He paid calls to La Vieille Cité , famed for its antiquities , where he was politely entertained and actually bought a little Renaissance bronze relief , but no one had heard of a cross coming on the market in recent years . |
| 7 | So 28-year-old Neil had them removed and now has a false set after losing the rest while playing sport . |
| 8 | My therapy with Dr Gyggle had continued and now entered a new phase . |
| 9 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 10 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 11 | The next morning when the bells of the abbey tolled for Prime , the first prayer of the monastic day , Corbett was up , dressed and gently kicked a sleepy , grunting Ranulf awake . |
| 12 | The young ones were less strongly coloured and still had a downy look about them . |
| 13 | They give proper emphasis to its quiet poetry as well as its obvious rhetorical grandeur , while their classic mid-price disc is finely recorded and also includes a sensitive account of the Debussy Sonata as well as other music by Debussy and Ravel . |
| 14 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 15 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |
| 16 | A winter-flowering cherry , planted in memory of someone in a place I can not visit to water regularly , bit the dust last spring , but a replacement seems to have become established and even had a few blossoms this winter . |
| 17 | ‘ Most young swimmers find it terribly hard to do all the training that is required and also live a normal life . |