Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five-bedroom , double-garaged properties , individually designed and standing in plots of well over an acre . |
| 2 | Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged . |
| 3 | I see me in my shame , the horror of this hour ; mascara fallout littering my face like ashes , my skin dank with the sweat of Crilly and myself , my underwear torn and hanging from my hips , and me , small and stoned and sobbing , beneath the stern emphatic white of Siobhan 's cross . |
| 4 | The research and teaching interests of the Department of English Literature and its Postgraduate School are varied and challenging from Medieval Studies to Postmodernism and from traditional literary scholarship to contemporary literary theory , and were marked in 1992 by the award of the highest possible ranking in the national research selectivity exercise . |
| 5 | You can have the lights installed and working within an hour . |
| 6 | There was an incapable sleeper somewhere in his mind , a sleeper bruised and tossing on heaped feather mattresses , the Real Princess , suffering the muffled pea . |
| 7 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 8 | As for Selene , she was already doing as she was bidden and making over the dresses till new ones could be bought . |
| 9 | Alix was working on a customer , a young cinder-head naked on his belly on her couch , lasers primed and crouching like birds of prey all around . |
| 10 | He did a lot for the children , warmed and warming in his need to hold and touch them . |
| 11 | The skills involved in drafting work , examining what has been written and thinking about what has been written in relation to the original purpose of the assignment are skills which teachers stress heavily . |
| 12 | ‘ What a beautiful young woman , ’ the young man thought , and , unaware of their own narcissism , they sat on either side of the pinewood table for all the world as if they really were twins , recently separated and reuniting in astonishment . |
| 13 | Preparation courses need to be established specifically for adopters , covering childcare and issues on adoptive parenthood such as how to tell children they are adopted and coping with feelings of being ‘ different ’ to biological parents . |
| 14 | I was soaking wet , bruised , scratched and trembling with exhaustion . |
| 15 | The bearer of the missive had been instructed upon the terms to be made and according to Patrickson other persons would be willing to join the venture . |
| 16 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 17 | They can also be classified by frequency , Some are published weekly , others monthly and yet others bimonthly or quarterly , and the " lead times ' or periods between material being received and appearing in the magazine can vary from three or four days to six months more an important point to bear in mind when planning a press campaign . |
| 18 | Later excavation under the direction of Dr. Euan MacKie found that the work of building the circle was never completed and owing to a miscalculation or perhaps an unfavourable omen , was abandoned . |
| 19 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 20 | ‘ The folly of this unfortunate combination of circumstances is well publicised and damaging to the profession . ’ |
| 21 | Appearance of the eyes : swollen , sore , crusted or drooping eyelids ; continuous or uncontrolled eye movements ( nystagmus ) ; misshapen or irregular pupil ; eyes that are not normally aligned and working in co-ordination . |
| 22 | People and places , who 's in the studio and who 's releasing what with whom ( the latter now revised and reverting to the end of this section ) . |
| 23 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 24 | His front left paw was broken and crawling with maggots . |
| 25 | It concluded more patients were being treated and waiting times had been cut . |
| 26 | Selection of quotations for which entries are needed and sorting into senses by senior staff . |
| 27 | 3 Staff : ‘ The Agencies are putting considerable efforts into seeming what skills are needed and putting into effect the appropriate development programmes to ensure that their existing staff can meet them … |
| 28 | Always right at me , till I 'm half drowned and choking with suds in my eyes . |
| 29 | Many of his radical moves , breaking the BBC down into business units instructed to make money or be closed and buying in services from the private sector if it is cheaper , are either in force or due to be so by the beginning of next month — so if he went they would continue anyway . |
| 30 | By CD I understand a property of communication , displayed in the course of the development of the information to be conveyed and consisting in advancing this development . |