Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hobhouse was educated at Eton ( 1875–9 ) and Christ Church , Oxford , and seemed destined for a military career , attending the Royal Military College , Sandhurst . |
| 2 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 3 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 4 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 5 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 6 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |