Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke .
2 His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial .
3 Philip accepted my idea , and incorporated it into a memorable paper he gave to the Royal Archaeological Institute in 1955 ( published in Arch .
4 Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 .
5 Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style .
6 It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place .
7 And best of all , the Royston , Hertfordshire-based company has simply taken technology that it has already developed and used it in a creative way , which means the newspaper should be relatively cheap — no pricing was available , however , as the firm builds bespoke systems to suit a customers individual needs .
8 We 've fitted a compact disc player and protected it with a new security system .
9 And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound !
10 Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised .
11 Tuan Ti Fo stoppered the bottle and fixed it to the small hook on his belt , then straightened up .
12 Burning and looting the countryside as he went , Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking .
13 So Alfred had laced his own brandy and taken it to the little hut which had youthful associations , there to kill himself in a manner that was almost ceremonial .
14 In short , that they have appropriated a look , a style , and imbued it with no more than a vacuous narcissism , a barbaric bricolage mirroring a generation lost cynical ironic gestures and strategies .
15 Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd , London has expanded the retail banking elements of its flagship wholesale banking and treasury product , Equation , and released it as a separate but fully integrated module , Retail Advantage : like Equation , Retail Advantage is a client-server-based package , but has enhanced facilities for producing customer profitability reports , on-screen or in report form , for quality management purposes ; it incorporates a real-time automatic teller machine gateway to provide on-line validation and updates of such transactions as cash withdrawals , and cheque book requests ; it includes an updated version of Kapiti 's front-end office automation ‘ cashier system ’ , which undertakes point of service validation , and includes a transaction definition toolkit for up-dating such items as commission or exchange rates ; it has a fund management capability , which can map onto clearing rules worldwide ; and it has multi-lingual capabilities , such as being able to generate multi-lingual customer reports ; the company gave no prices for it .
16 Here again , in 1857 , statute took away the whole of the matrimonial jurisdiction from the Ecclesiastical Courts and vested it in a new court , the Divorce Court , which was enabled to do not only everything that the Ecclesiastical Court could have done , but also what previously needed the combined efforts of the Ecclesiastical Courts , the Common Law Courts , and an Act of Parliament .
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