Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last word was stressed and almost on a growl . |
| 2 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 3 | Egon Zehnder has established a reputation for high quality and absolute discretion , charges fees based on work to be undertaken and not on a contingency or percentage of salary basis , and has retained practically all its senior staff . |
| 4 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | Parents , often isolated and often with a view of children based only upon their experience of their own offspring , began to be able to set their child and his/her behaviour within a much broader context . |
| 6 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 7 | She was also flushed and evidently in a state of unrest , which made him feel chivalrous and sympathetic . |
| 8 | Swivelling his head left and right like a tennis spectator , Larsen kept watch on both sets of stairs and waited , his gun held ready , barrel pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 9 | He with his cheerfully avuncular man of the world bonhomie , always smartly dressed and often with a flower in his buttonhole , a connoisseur of fine wines and Havana cigars . |
| 10 | I have made this broad but brief review of the development of provision for special needs partly to remind us of how much improvement has been achieved and also as a background to the rest of the paper . |
| 11 | 2.3 As the nature and number of the learners have changed and partly as a consequence of that change ) , so has the nature of the teaching . |