Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Farrell , of Ross-on-Wye , Hereford and Worcester , showed them where he saw the car parked and pointed out a skid mark on the hard shoulder . |
| 2 | Ian Whelpton technical manager to Clynol , who manufacture perms , believes it should only be permed when twisted and wound around a rod . |
| 3 | The frogs are collected and cooked over a fire until the poisonous , milky skin secretions appear ; these are then scraped on to the weapons . |
| 4 | Dimly she was aware that de Raimes was being carried by two men , that she was being prodded and pushed down a flight of stairs . |
| 5 | A man has appeared in court charged with attempting to murder a couple who were kidnapped and pushed over a cliff in a burning car . |
| 6 | A couple who were kidnapped and pushed off a cliff in a burning car have asked a court to give them the pick-up truck in which they were abducted . |
| 7 | Racialized and ethnic discourses and encounters are also inevitably suffused with elements of sexual and class difference and therefore fractured and criss-crossed around a number of axes and identities . |
| 8 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 9 | At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 10 | He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 11 | Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year . |
| 12 | There are many tests of children 's language which have been developed and marketed over a number of years . |
| 13 | This option obtains the material to be approved and carries out a check to ensure that the package , the references to its contents , the constituent modules and the set of active DCs are in a correct and consistent state . |
| 14 | He turned to go but Talbot stopped him as a seaman entered and handed over a sheet of paper . |
| 15 | Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings . |
| 16 | The contract was awarded in September 1990 and within six weeks CCG had mobilised and handed over a number of buildings to support the construction team on the ‘ Core Site ’ . |
| 17 | Then she reported another bit of foolishness : she had concealed and taken home a knife which had been sent to Eliot . |
| 18 | I know that his intervention was well meant and had not a whit of political mischief about it . |
| 19 | The Angels later paired and spawned about a year later . |
| 20 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |
| 21 | His pupil , D'Eslon , formulated laws under which animal magnetism seemed to operate : it was a universal , continuous fluid , which was subtle in that it had an ebb and flow ; it was concentrated in the human body like a magnet ; and could be accumulated and communicated over a distance . |
| 22 | Rehearsals were held in the Club 's premises at 136 Bree Street , a former gymnasium acquired and converted only a couple of years before . |
| 23 | When brother Michéal and sister Triona left Skara Brae back in 1970 to form the Bothy Band , Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill decided to stay in her day job , get married and bring up a family . |
| 24 | The pigeon is released and takes up a stance nearby . |
| 25 | If in doubt , assume some expenditure will be required and put down a figure . |