Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR OVER 25 YEARS ALITEX HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT SUPERIOR STRUCTURES FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY . |
| 2 | Having designed and built this boat , Nathan knew its capabilities better than anyone . |
| 3 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |
| 4 | Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket . |
| 5 | The six Concerti on this interesting release were published in 1742 , and were rearranged and reprinted many times , the composer actually rearranging the Sixth Concerto in an edition published 33 years later , such was its popularity . |
| 6 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 7 | The trail seemed obvious enough , but my intended killer had come and gone that way — must have done — and if he should return for any reason I would n't want to meet him . |
| 8 | ‘ I am unable to be confident from Mr. Eliot 's writings , ’ iris Murdoch once reproachfully wrote in a theoretical defence of realism , ‘ that he has ever enjoyed and admired any novel . ’ |
| 9 | The organization fostered and developed such myths because they were then freed from having to take on board the understandings and implications of carrying out the work . |
| 10 | We have not always agreed — I think that he was profoundly wrong on war crimes — but we have always respected and liked each other . |
| 11 | Did Theo remember that mill on the road out of The Hague where they had once sat and pledged eternal friendship so passionately , over their glasses of milk ? |
| 12 | I could have sat and stared all evening but Benjamin suddenly realised the drift of my eyes as well as my lechery and , at the appropriate time , seized me by the arm and hustled me from the hall . |
| 13 | Top Scot fined and given stern warning |
| 14 | Other witnesses said in statements Jobson had reloaded and fired four shots at Mrs Smith . |
| 15 | As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information . |
| 16 | The failure of the second coup attempt against General Noriega in less than two years has disappointed and enraged some Panamanians who felt the US missed a golden opportunity to use its troops to dispose of the general , indicted by the Americans on drug-smuggling charges last year . |
| 17 | Choosing quite deliberately to envisage literature as a " cog and a screw " in an ideological crusade against the combined forces of capitalism , colonialism and fascism , Radek reviewed and assessed foreign literatures in terms of their responses to the major historical events of the early twentieth century . |
| 18 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 19 | Mo has owned and completed several boats , including a Trapper 5000 , a well-known Starlight half-tonner , also called Sparkle and , more recently , a Sadler 34 aboard which they have cruised the Mediterranean for two years . |
| 20 | It could be argued that the long-running teachers ' dispute of 1984 — 87 has eroded and undermined this trust . |
| 21 | The main intention of our book , therefore , is to re-examine their lives and works in a manner not previously attempted , combining the expertise of the literary critic and the professional psychologist , in order to show how their creativity and their tendency to psychosis shaped and influenced each other . |
| 22 | Collimore he 's turned and found some room for himself . |
| 23 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 24 | We have met and held each other and we 've kissed , but that 's all . " |
| 25 | such superficial analyses and solutions are not only insulting to women , they also ignore the distribution of power in society and the academic world , and the way in which males have appropriated and defended that power . |
| 26 | Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession . |
| 27 | Both novels see the world in colonial colours — as determined by empires , in the furtherance of which races have defeated and enslaved each other , in which they have met and married , in which a black mercenary might marry a daughter of Venice . |
| 28 | She had seen and noticed this despondency , this weightedness , in her mother . |
| 29 | The simple act of starting out on the route from Tunbridge Wells to Bourne End was nevertheless sufficient to call to her mind every detail of what she had seen and heard that afternoon . |
| 30 | Her body was weary but her brain was buzzing , trying to make sense of everything she 'd seen and heard that day . |