Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | The slogans on buildings round the square and carried by workers ' groups reflected his new thinking . |
2 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
3 | They fed trout in the lake at Sandringham House , slid down the banisters , took Jill , their springer spaniel for long rambles , played hide and seek in the garden , listened to the wind whistling through the trees and hunted for pigeons ' eggs . |
4 | Candlesticks filed into pieces and collected in ladies ' stockings had served for canister for a while , but had been swiftly exhausted . |
5 | … the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done , and been ; the shame Of motives late revealed , and the awareness Of things ill done and done to others ' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue . |
6 | In a hotel , for example , this means ensuring that every employee — manager , housekeeper , waiters , porters , cleaners , and others — can be contacted at a moment 's notice and alerted to customers ' requirements . |
7 | Any luncheon checks , lounge drinks and room service checks are posted to the tabular ledger and entered on guests ' folios . |
8 | He got some kind of perverse pleasure out of this , thinking at the back of his mind that when The Graduate opened in the movie houses around Manhattan , the face would be seen magnified on a big screen and imprinted on audiences ' minds . |
9 | So he spent his days in a sedan chair draped with blankets and lined with hares ' fur to ensure that no air could percolate . |
10 | Figures produced by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders ( NACRO , 1990b ) indicate that in terms of annual receptions , magistrates ' courts were responsible for 45 per cent of those sentenced to immediate custody in 1988 , compared with 55 per cent for the Crown Court — in spite of the fact that very many more indictable offenders are tried and convicted in magistrates ' courts than in the Crown Court ( 90 per cent and 20 per cent respectively ) . |
11 | No such lack of lush pasture afflicted the Fens , especially in the silt belt , where medieval prosperity is commemorated by mighty churches and confirmed by historians ' research into medieval and sixteenth-century tax returns . |