Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones was handed the biggest fine in FA history on Tuesday and given a suspended six-month ban for his part in the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 2 | In order to draw this out of him , he wrote a vastly elaborate commentary on the Lay , softening the blow of his harsher criticisms by inventing the personae of a whole group of scholarly editors who are debating the text in the way that scholars have disputed over Homer or Beowulf It would seem that Tolkien took a great deal of notice of Lewis 's invented editors , for he rewrote his Kay and incorporated a high proportion of their emendations . |
| 3 | Although Henslow 's teaching was not part of the undergraduate curriculum , interested students were taken on field trips and given a good grounding in the science of the time . |
| 4 | For example , during its mad dash his plunging horse had burst through some bushes and disturbed a she-bear with her cubs , but had gone on before the bear could react . |
| 5 | Signe wrapped her yellow oilskin arms around my neck and planted a kiss on me . |
| 6 | Lang has also played a part in the admission of rock and graffiti to the cultural fold and given a helping hand to the young unemployed with subsidies for their participation on archaeological digs . |
| 7 | This Act , however , allowed the establishment of forest reserves and marked a change in attitude to the nation 's forests which had hitherto been considered as inexhaustible . |
| 8 | His patience exhausted , he called another agent and booked a dearer ticket . |
| 9 | I went up the shops and changed a pound . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the results of the meeting , although not legally binding , carried considerable moral and political force and marked a formal commitment by the East European countries to Western-style free markets and convertible currencies . |
| 11 | It was a policy which reinforced traditional methods in the older sectors of industry and placed a premium on short-term production at the expense of innovative development . |
| 12 | She flinched as Stephen laid his hands on her naked shoulders and planted a hungry kiss on the side of her neck his fingers fumbling in the thick folds of the towel , seeking her breasts . |
| 13 | Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort . |
| 14 | Until 31 October 1980 , the House of Commons took the view that any reference to Hansard in court proceedings would constitute a breach of its privileges and required a petition for leave to use Hansard to be presented in each case . |
| 15 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 16 | The best made by far was the Ricoll and given a set of decently engraved keytops this would rate very highly as a direct replacement system and is also quite attractively priced . |
| 17 | And the parties could fulfil their promises only if they presented a uniform program to the electorate and achieved a cohesive majority in the House of Commons to carry through that program . |
| 18 | He put the flask on her lap to free both his hands for the cleaning , and before she knew it , she had raised the bottle to her lips and taken a sip . |
| 19 | Now he held the wheel in his long-fingered brown hands , tossed a tambourine in my lap and marked a beat : ‘ Wahida , wahida , wahida ’ — ‘ One , one , one . ’ |
| 20 | For the purposes of n.m.r. measurements three consecutive monomer units in a chain are considered to define a configuration and called a triad . |
| 21 | This effect lessened our national productive capacity and placed a higher burden on the primary manufacturing industries like Engineering , Car manufacture , Aircraft makers , in order to keep an increasing number of nonproducers . |
| 22 | There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day . |
| 23 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 24 | And churning and the carrying water for er for to for for the household and needed a lot of water when you were churning to wash the the butter properly . |
| 25 | Mr Koc said he was taken to the airport by Mr Ata Nur Kuntar and given a packet containing £2,500 , plus an envelope with three £50 notes in it as pocket money . |
| 26 | Mr Koc said he was taken to the airport by Mr Ata Nur Kuntar and given a packet containing £2,500 , plus an envelope with three £50 notes in it as pocket money . |
| 27 | In 1746 , one of Cumberland 's officers on his way back from victory at Culloden had invaded the very same hut and raped a girl ( his troopers held her down ) then strangled the grandmother to command her silence . |
| 28 | As long as Keynes pitched his arguments for credit expansion within the bounds of orthodoxy , he dominated the proceedings of the Committee and achieved a degree of consensus . |
| 29 | The congress also confirmed Sanjaasurengiyn Dzorig as the MDU 's chief co-ordinator and elected a general co-ordinating council and a presidium . |
| 30 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |