Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant .
2 It was wrapped up in black-and-white striped paper and twisted like a unicorn 's horn .
3 The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour .
4 The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light .
5 The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island .
6 Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth .
7 The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree 's branch .
8 With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about .
9 Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr .
10 Yet a statement of national intent concerning the learnings planned and provided for a nation 's youth is surely a document which should be available and one which needs to be open to public criticism .
11 Richard laughed at a vision of the nipple cut off and stuck like a baby 's dummy in Martin 's mouth .
12 He was quickly surrounded by police and taken to a neighbour 's house where they broke the tragic news that his four children — Sharon , aged five , and her brothers , Francis , four , Martin three , and Stefan , one — were dead .
13 ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs .
14 She could see only through a watery mist and realized after a moment 's panic that she still had her reading glasses on .
15 Potager describes a particular type of formal vegetable garden planned and planted with a draughtsman 's precision to achieve an intricate symmetrical design of beds bounded by clipped hedges and separated by gravel walks .
16 Hercules is often depicted holding a club and draped with a lion 's hide .
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