Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncharacteristically , he decided to gallop about , and freakishly collided with a shed , badly injuring his hock . |
| 2 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 3 | Somewhat more accessible could have been an object such as the bronze strigil found in the Caerleon Fortress Baths , including six of the Labours and presumably paired with a companion to complete the Dodekathlos . |
| 4 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 5 | Not until after he was weaned was Joni reclaimed by his maternal grandmother , put in the care of an aunt , and finally placed with a family friend of very limited means . |
| 6 | It 's then covered in a generous layer of almond marzipan and finally topped with a layer of melt-in-the-mouth soft-eating Regal ice . |
| 7 | By nature fastidious , he worked towards his oils through a series of careful studies and always painted with a piece of blackout material hung behind his easel . |
| 8 | After acclamations before the Lateran Palace , like those that had already taken place in front of St Peter 's , the new pope went up to the principal part of the palace , called the Leonine presbyterium , and later celebrated with a banquet . |
| 9 | A good pile is made of the birch twigs ; then , when all is ready , the handful of needle-thins is taken from the pocket ( where they have left much of their moisture ) , put into the fire centre , and carefully lit with a match . |
| 10 | Public service broadcasting ought to provide a ‘ daily service that is continuously and throughout infused with a sense of its public function ’ . |
| 11 | Many of our modern reefs may be interglacial reefs , karstified during low glacial sea levels and now veneered with a capping of modern coral . |
| 12 | In Rio de Janeiro , dead street children have been found trussed in barbed wire , with their eyes gouged out , and even decapitated with a chainsaw . |
| 13 | A mould is made round it in detachable pieces , and in these a wax casting-mould is moulded or cast and then filled with a core ; and the bronze is cast from this as in the direct method . |
| 14 | In his experiments , subjects were presented with an informative sentence on a screen for 4 seconds , and then presented with a question about the content of the sentences . |
| 15 | Legal requirements to become an adopter are minimal ( Table 1 ) , but to be accepted by an adoption agency as an adopter and then placed with a child or baby requires an often lengthy and rigorous process of assessment and approval ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 16 | These ends were cleaned up with a spokeshave and then scraped with a twist of the wrist . |
| 17 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 18 | Traditionally practitioners have considered infant behaviour problems to be symptomatic of underlying disorder — that the problem exists inside the child and must be diagnosed and then treated with a view to a cure . |
| 19 | They are rubbed with salt to dry cure them and then coated with a mixture of spices , including juniper , and molasses , which is mainly responsible for the black appearance of the ham . |
| 20 | For estimation of carbamylated haemoglobin , red blood cells were separated and washed , and then hydrolysed with a mixture of concentrated hydrochloric and acetic acids . |
| 21 | First , as shown in the photograph on the facing page , the flowers can be glued on to the mount board and then protected with a glass frame , or they can be covered with a sheet of cold-seal film before framing . |
| 22 | Bee stings should be removed with tweezers and then bathed with a teaspoon of bicarb in half a glass of water . |
| 23 | His public pronouncements — drafted with infinite care , painstakingly memorized , and then delivered with a minimum of improvisation — were another , even more effective , method of asserting personal leadership . |
| 24 | Each colourful Flower Fairy is beautifully portrayed for you on a high quality porcelain plate and expertly finished with a rim of 22-carat gold . |
| 25 | A coach and four came hell-for-leather up King Street and almost collided with a chaise coming down Whitehall . |
| 26 | The cooked babas are hollowed out , filled with confectioners ' custard , sugared , gratinés in the oven , chilled in the refrigerator , and ultimately served with a coulis of raspberries or caramelised peaches . |
| 27 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |