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

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1 He might have sat down with Pascoe and eaten the food and drunk the wine with her murder still at his fingertips .
2 They had met Auguste and seen the Margate grotto with him .
3 Do you , he was as close to death if he had n't have gone in se to Ipswich and seen the specialist at the time he did er
4 Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking .
5 ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’
6 Was only beaten once by Tilson and given the game Tillo was having that is no mean feat .
7 Had n't he studied in France and seen the men of this supposedly superior civilization living amid their mighty machines and their great institutions ?
8 If he had not met Sara Monroe and seen the hostility in her eyes , it is possible that he might still have refused the legacy , inconvenient though it would have been .
9 Right : Wonderfully messianic poster featuring a Spitfire complete with nose-art , pilot mechanic and St George and entitled The Men Who Saved the World .
10 You 've been to Glasgow and seen the tenements there , the filth and the meanness of the streets but I tell you Glasgow is nothing compared with this place .
11 Mounting a strong lobby , the National Rifle Association argued that gun control was irrelevant to isolated incidents like that in Killeen and restricted the opportunity for self-defence against armed assailants .
12 He has protested his innocence , saying that before fleeing East Germany last weekend he dissolved the GDR 's hard-currency accounts in Switzerland and transferred the sum of Dm60 million ( £22 million ) to East Germany 's state bank .
13 He has protested his innocence , saying that before fleeing East Germany last weekend he dissolved the GDR 's hard-currency accounts in Switzerland and transferred the sum of Dm60 million ( £22 million ) to East Germany 's state bank .
14 If you 've been to Burford and seen the spot , there 's nothing more to be said .
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