Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Handley was yesterday being cared for and counselled by social services . |
2 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
3 | She would stand at her window in the summer twilights and feel the tug inside her as if something were straining to get out , urging her on with the kind of excitement she longed for and shrank from all at once . |
4 | I found the sexism and heterosexism of the Black movement difficult to cope with and felt at that time that I was n't considered Black enough either in my colour or my politics . |
5 | Reversed from previous years , the last 10 miles included a long climb to begin with and continued on higher ground , which was exposed to both direct sun and prevailing wind . |
6 | The research was conducted through the collection of data at the conclusion of an investigation or once a referral had been dealt with and closed via other action . |
7 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
8 | Either party may give written notice to the other of a change of address , and after notice of such change has been served and received , any notice , document or request given or served thereafter shall be given to or served upon such party at such changed address . |
9 | 5 Support etc The rights of light air support protection shelter and all other easements and rights now or after the date of this Lease belonging to or enjoyed by other parts of the Centre The following proviso should be added at the end of this paragraph : provided that such rights and easements shall not [ adversely ] or [ materially ] affect the Premises or the business being carried on therein |
10 | After this time existing castles were added to and adapted as palatial residences . |
11 | One was the simple fact that it was directed at and mediated through adolescent boys , whose conception of the significance of their own behaviour is notably dramatic . |
12 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |