Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their senses , instincts , behaviour , anatomy , physiology , digestion , biochemistry — the whole creature — is supremely designed and integrated for its bloodthirsty life . |
| 2 | We would like to contact women of above retirement age who live in houses they have had designed and built to their own requirements . |
| 3 | / All their products are made on looms designed and built by their own engineers , and recognized as the most technically superior weaving plant in the World / . |
| 4 | Mr Reilly said : ‘ The engine was designed and engineered at our technical development centre in Russelsheim , Germany , and through close co-operation between engineers , designers and manufacturing experts , the total development period has been only four years . ’ |
| 5 | The continuing democratic process , he said , would be " pursued and followed to its conclusion in the setting up of a multiparty system " . |
| 6 | In the forest home of these birds the obscured vision in dense foliage necessitates a courtship strategy in which females are pursued and shown to their nest sites . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Give them room to be taken easily from their shelves , not wrenched and twisted from their tightly packed companions . |
| 9 | The long-standing idea that the Earth started out as a molten mass , gradually cooled and shrank to its present size ( a theory that still had adherents well into the 1950s ) , had to be abandoned . |
| 10 | But Mansell , still bruised and shaken after his accident on Saturday , had to overcome a poor start , which had resulted in him being passed by team-mate Riccardo Patrese on the opening lap . |
| 11 | Whilst tightly held in this position , the wall of the capsule is compressed and moulded to its smooth , vase-shaped outline . |
| 12 | A woman , aged 70 , was recovering at home yesterday after being attacked and robbed of her handbag as she was walking in Ernest Street , Boldon Colliery , after a night out playing bingo . |
| 13 | A 79-year-old woman who was attacked and robbed of her handbag as she walked near Gateshead town centre has been admitted to hospital for observation after suffering a heart flutter brought on by stress . |
| 14 | The basic tale of how young Winifred Gwenffrwd , was attacked and beheaded by her thwarted assailant only to be revived by her uncle , St Beuno , is one of the better known legends of ancient Wales . |
| 15 | Her nipples had become rigid , almost unbearably sensitised , as his fingers gently squeezed and played with her firm round breasts . |
| 16 | The local authority involved should be applauded and encouraged in their efforts . |
| 17 | There is an enormous literature of research on the relationship , which the late Steven Box ( 1987 ) has usefully summarized and reviewed in his very important last book , Recession , Crime and Punishment . |
| 18 | The play follows Chapman from his miserable youth in suburban Georgia , where he was systematically bullied and humiliated by his father . |
| 19 | The former is an interface to existing database tables , allowing the information contained to be queried and used in your worksheets . |
| 20 | Able to absorb large amounts of punishment in combat , the P-47 Jug was respected and admired by its pilots and groundcrews alike , emerging as one of the great fighting aircraft of World War Two . |
| 21 | She cried out , then the cry caught and choked in her throat . |
| 22 | A man had shot a woman , buried her body in the sands , had been caught and hung for his crime . |
| 23 | A number of whores caught and convicted at their second offence were being taken , their heads shaved , a white wand in their hands , down towards the Tun near Cornhill , the open gaol where they stood to be reviled by any passerby . |
| 24 | However , because the ant 's stomach could not digest the meat that the beast caught and ate with its lion-mouth , the mermecolion would swiftly starve and die after birth . |
| 25 | A poignant moment from Durham 's first-ever Benson & Hedges Cup match : Viv Richards of Glamorgan is caught and bowled by his old friend and former Somerset team-mate Ian Botham |
| 26 | That is his plan to dismember Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and to privatise the local inspectorate of schools so that inspectors are picked and paid by their own schools . |
| 27 | Director Bill MacDonald said : ‘ I am delighted that this beautiful Victorian building has been rescued and restored to its former glory . |
| 28 | KNAPTON maltings held its very own barley identification course in January , organised and run by our friend ( retired from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany ) . |
| 29 | There are now some 275 all over the country : they 're savings-and-loans clubs owned and run by their members . |
| 30 | The IPPR could have us all in popular revolt against the faceless financial institutions with the subversive idea that pension funds should be owned and run by their members . |