Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Erm the council erm , the welfare and associate advi advice centres since nineteen seventeen eight however , until March of this year erm the staff the counter staff within the advice centre were divided into to two departments er , the information and community services department reported to committees and , as a result of the general move within the council and the service department to er neighbourhood erm offices and called the support services .
2 He was made an honorary member of the club and given the promise of free beer for the rest of his life .
3 But Mr Fallon said the Government had already funded Two Castles and given the council £27.8m in revenue support grant .
4 The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow , feathers everywhere .
5 and given them a dish of trifle I think a lot would have just eaten the trifle , had a cup of tea and taken the rest home .
6 He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon .
7 One patient complained of heartburn and required the administration of H 2 antagonists to relieve it .
8 First , an enraged she-bear had barged through the undergrowth and taken the throat out of his horse with one swipe of her paw .
9 As well as acting as a surrogate mum to the hedgehogs , Christine has also given physiotherapy to tortoises and given the kiss of life to a pet rabbit , which everyone thought had gone to the great hutch in the sky .
10 It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems .
11 they 'll have rung all your branches and given the results
12 I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes .
13 Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you .
14 I have been to many of those areas and seen the problems .
15 He was brought a copy of Budworth 's ( first ) book ; he was shown flattering notices in the newspapers ; he was led to the bar and shown the compliments in Latin , Greek , French and one or two new ones in English , written — all very neatly — on the walls .
16 The stolen car would be stripped of identifying marks such as its chassis number and number plates and given the write-off 's markings a process known as ‘ ringing ’ .
17 Schnabel originally intended to collaborate on the film with the Polish director Lech Majewski , who is said to have interviewed around one hundred Basquiat acquaintances and written the screenplay 's first draft .
18 Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden .
19 Dorset Health Authority approved the plan and appointed the unit as its community services provider with funds transferred from the existing NHS trust units .
20 Some of the government appointments as heads of the programme companies were proven professionals — under ORTF : for example , in 1978 , the head of TFI , Jean-Louis Guillaud , had previously advised Pompidou on broadcasting and prepared the launching of the third channel ; the head of A2 , Maurice Ulrich , would later be ‘ Chef de Cabinet ’ of Chirac when premier ( 1986–8 ) ; Claude Contamine , head of FR3 , and later ( 1986–9 ) head of A2 , had been one of the first — when assistant DG of ORTF in 1964 — to commission work from independent producers , despite ORTF 's formal monopoly of production ; further proof-if it were needed — of the longevity of the connection between broadcasting and the state .
21 Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines .
22 This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law .
23 And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute .
24 He had been beaten by soldiers , he said , who had taken him back to his home and stolen the money he had hidden there .
25 They are given the induction pack and are taken round the home and shown the layout .
26 He could no longer be controlled ; even chains were useless , he had often been fettered and chained up , but he had snapped his chains and broken the fetters .
27 No wonder , then , if realism , which makes a claim to know past and present in unequivocal terms , returned to fiction and repossessed the field .
28 But Edward had a more substantial motive for planning an invasion of Normandy : his strategy was to take the pressure off Lancaster in Aquitaine by providing a diversion in Normandy and another in Flanders , were Sir Hugh Hastings had been appointed Lieutenant and given the command of Flemish troops who would advance from the north against Philip .
29 He might have sat down with Pascoe and eaten the food and drunk the wine with her murder still at his fingertips .
30 More naturally one sister would have gritted her teeth and done the job herself .
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