Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior did once turn the ball into the net but David Elleray was more alert than the referee of England 's 1986 World Cup tie against Argentina and had noticed the hand of a mere mortal . |
| 2 | Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case . |
| 3 | He 'd looked at the sheet of newspaper with the long-necked figures and the rough lines , and had seen the type underneath and its story about a car bomb in the city centre . |
| 4 | The Vice-Chairman , Mr. David Blank , who as School Captain had welcomed Gilkes to the School in 1929 and had seen the changes which followed , became Acting Chairman and Mr. W.A. Kershaw Vice-Chairman . |
| 5 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
| 6 | If he had done a little more research and had seen the evidence that I gave to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee in 1987 , he would have seen then — when we had a fiscal surplus of many billions — that I indicated that it would be right , in a downturn , to borrow money in a recession . |
| 7 | During the later Middle Ages the turnover of names had been rapid , but afterwards an important group of middling farmers had put down roots in the parish and had given the community a sense of cohesiveness and continuity . |
| 8 | Recently the Georgian Supreme Soviet had responded to this increasing violence by voting to make the carrying of firearms by the general public illegal , and had given the population until the end of February to surrender weapons . |
| 9 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 10 | Indeed , it emerged that he had been convicted of killing the child of a former girlfriend and had assaulted the defendant and her 3-year-old daughter . |
| 11 | There was much smuggling and evasion , and the syndicate found difficulty in selling the wool , for Edward had imposed an embargo on trade with Flanders and had instructed the merchants to sell their wool at Dordrecht in Brabant to please his ally the Duke of Brabant . |
| 12 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 13 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 14 | It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds . |
| 15 | Cleo had seen Lady Claudia on her previous visit and had recognised the woman instantly as a merciless tyrant to whom prestige and dignity meant more than legal rectitude . |
| 16 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
| 17 | In the uproar which followed it was no help at all that the other teachers signed a statement that the girl had been continually insolent and had provoked the teacher beyond reasonable self-control . |
| 18 | She had been carrying Maura down the stairs and had heard the policeman 's remark . |
| 19 | She sounded as if she had spent her life in a Jane Austen novel , and had heard the name only yesterday . |
| 20 | I had no intention of leaving Armstrong and had kept the engine ticking over as there was no way I could start him up in a hurry . |
| 21 | It was a relic from the great days of the docks , and had kept the feel of a sailors ' and a stevedores ' drinking hole , right down to the bare brick walls and flagstones . |
| 22 | Perhaps Isabelle had simply visited the château once as a guest , in the old days , before the Baron became ill , and had kept the postcard and label as souvenirs of a happy day . |
| 23 | Holomisa was opposed to the homelands system and in February 1990 had promised to hold a referendum on Transkei 's possible reintegration into South Africa [ see p. 37306 ] ; he strongly supported the ANC , and had legalized the organization in Transkei in February . |
| 24 | In the course of her research into the history of the house , she discovered that the male Pygling line had in fact died out , and that the present bearer of the hallowed name — the pathetic husband of the overbearing Mrs Pygling — came in fact through the female line and had adopted the name of Pygling . |
| 25 | But if Berowne had been writing and had blotted the paper at the desk , where was it now ? |
| 26 | Furthermore , she was n't too keen on having to shop and prepare three meals a day when she 'd been so organised before , and had done the minimum of cooking . |
| 27 | He was , in the eyes of the Church , already a Catholic , since he had been baptized into the Church , and had received the sacraments of Penance , Communion and Confirmation before leaving the convent . |
| 28 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 29 | The labour master explained that on admission he had told Connolly to break 1 cwt. of stone , and had received the information that Connolly did not break stones and that he , the labour master , could break the stones himself . |
| 30 | Indeed , so shaken was she that , without being fully aware of what she was doing , she had invited him in and had led the way into her sitting-room before she had got herself back together again . |