Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 2 | In his article 169 letter , the European Commissioner stated that it was important that the rail link and the station should be considered together in terms of the environmental impact assessment if the European Community directive , signed by the Government and agreed to by this country , were to be met . |
| 3 | Grading was done and agreed upon by four pathologists ( A. G. , R. P. M. , Q. H. , M. S. ) without knowledge of the patient 's diagnosis . |
| 4 | In the latter case Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. referred to the ‘ wholly mistaken notion that it is somehow demeaning for the most senior judges to have their decisions examined and passed upon by those who are judicially their juniors . ’ |
| 5 | Not particularly these circumstances in an objective sense , but the way in which they are perceived and oriented to by black people . |
| 6 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 7 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 8 | These were then filed and added to with frequent reports , letters , and documents . |
| 9 | Kidwelly was established within a short time of the Norman Conquest , and added to by various baronial families during the reign of King Edward I and later . |
| 10 | They deposit scent from the tip of their abdomen along the route from the food to the nest , and this trail is followed and added to by other ants as they return with food . |
| 11 | Here , the railway developed its headquarters when there was little money to spare and the buildings inherited in 1960 have been adapted and added to in piecemeal fashion . |
| 12 | As deadpan as in its more accustomed role of relaying verbatim endless speeches by Mikhail Gorbachev , the official Soviet news agency reported yesterday on a town terrorised by ‘ at least three ’ visitations from outer space — and vouched for by eminent local scientists , no less . |
| 13 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 14 | This obscures the fact that many major contributors — Duke Ellington , Count Basie , Dizzy Gillespie — are the total opposite ; it also ignores the fact that the freak depicted in Bird is not the Charlie Parker I knew and worked with at all . ’ |
| 15 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 16 | The Via crucis ( composed some thirteen years later in 1878 ) was clearly intended as a far more imposing artistic statement , and listened to on that level it undoubtedly succeeds . |
| 17 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 18 | She believes that his speeches will still be read and listened to in 100 years . |
| 19 | The couple were both shoved and jostled as around one hundred demonstrators greeted them with jeers and shouts in Bolton , Lancashire . |
| 20 | Keegan was cheered and chanted for by United 's 3,000 fans throughout the match — a Geordie version of ‘ We love you , yeah , yeah , yeah ! |
| 21 | Employee detail records are updated and enquired upon in real time via a single Visual Display Unit in the Personnel Office . |
| 22 | The overall purpose of the study was to examine the way in which familial child sexual abuse was identified and responded to by social workers and police officers in the early investigative stage . |