Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 2 | When they arrived the hospital team changed tack and referred to them about all matters with regard to the girl 's care because they were the next of kin . |
| 3 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 4 | His special preserve was Cwm Idwal , and to be shown round that magnificent place , to have its intimacies and grand structure both explained and revealed to you by this gentle , wise old quarryman was one of life 's great pleasures , to be stored and cherished in memory . |
| 5 | The thing which had been imprisoned in the corridor walls and which had gibbered and clutched at them with insane and monstrous hunger . |
| 6 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 7 | The four full page introductory plates in the Dictionary of fruits , flowers and parts of plants were drawn and engraved by him in meticulous detail . |
| 8 | It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices . |
| 9 | However the dealers who bought and sold for themselves in opportune moments while trading in new issues on behalf of clients have sometimes been found out and reprimanded , but not usually sacked , if they were good dealers . |
| 10 | But Pavel was level-headed , and he knew that he had a certain inner strength ; nobody could have kept her and cared for her in secret and for so long without it . |
| 11 | The fingers tightened and every word he spoke was slow , deliberate and flung at her with malevolent force through his clenched teeth . |
| 12 | He would soon argue for a Whitmanesque , democratic art , drawn from the people and distributed to them in popular editions , accessible to all and finding its way into ‘ workmen 's houses and farms ’ . |
| 13 | If you are happy with all the details , return the proof with full payment , less your deposit and your order will be completed and despatched to you within 28 days . |
| 14 | Lloyd 's brothers Graham and Adrian have also played and scored for us in recent years , so I guess we will have to start scouring the valleys now to find another of his relatives . ’ |
| 15 | This technique has moved — to an extent — into TV programmes and film , and agency TV producers and creative groups tend to assume , automatically , that quick-cut films are understood and followed by everybody with complete ease . |
| 16 | A choreographer should translate this definition into dance terms thus : taking the moods , emotions and actions expressed , understood and observed by everyone in general and using natural gestures when applying the rules of choreographic grammar without trying to express them in any other way . |
| 17 | These had been blown out of her house and taken into his for safe keeping . |
| 18 | The point I am making here is based on an observation by Stanley Cavell ( 1979 , p. 460 ) and repeated by him in many contexts : ‘ a human being could not fail to know , confronting me , that I am a human being ’ . |
| 19 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 20 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 21 | Unless monetary payment is to pass from the wife to the husband ( for instance , as in a case where the house is in the husband 's sole name and the husband and wife agree that it is to be transferred to husband and wife and held by them upon certain trusts provided the wife pays the husband a sum of moneysee Chapter 7 ) , when the husband may require such money for his own purchase of another property , a contract between the parties would appear to be unnecessary . |
| 22 | This theory , first advanced by Clifford Jolly and described by myself at greater length elsewhere , enables us to draw detailed conclusions regarding the instinctual repertoire of our pre-human ancestors . |
| 23 | She sat down , and read to me from some of the most famous magazines in England . |