Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 2 | Miss Hepburn , 63 , who underwent surgery on Sunday , was listed in fair condition and expected to leave hospital within a week . |
| 3 | ‘ I was approached here in Paris by a member of the commercial section of the Iranian Embassy and asked to arrange shipment from Brazil , that 's all . |
| 4 | A dozen families were consequently contacted by telephone , and asked to provide information about their family life ; self-identified concerns ; parent 's seizure type and frequency ; the child or children 's response to seizures and the relationship of partners . |
| 5 | A mutational analysis indicated that the VZV 140k DNA binding domain was less specific in its DNA binding requirements than that of Vmw175 , and failed to bend DNA at its binding sites . |
| 6 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 7 | Many of their innovative ideas lost money and failed to win acceptance by customers . |
| 8 | Pieper tried and failed to get hold of the outfits to brief them and to gauge their reaction . |
| 9 | 522 , the plaintiff sued the defendant , a Member of Parliament , for an alleged libel on television and sought to introduce evidence of what the defendant had said in the House of Commons as proof of malice . |
| 10 | During most of this same period , however , there existed within Anglicanism another more liberal and conciliatory tradition , which drew inspiration from the work of Richard Hooker and sought to minimize controversy by advocating a wide measure of toleration on questions of dogma and ceremony . |
| 11 | The Spanish government introduced government indemnity at the beginning of this year ( see The Art Newspaper No.15 , February 1992 , p.4 ) and agreed to undertake responsibility above Pta1 million ( £5,500 ; $11,000 ) of an indemnity claim . |
| 12 | Apparently Alfonso came to visit Richard and agreed to stand surety for his friend 's behaviour , guaranteeing that he would do nothing against the will of the Duke of Aquitaine or his father . |
| 13 | In April 1865 , after months of hesitation , Agnes Jones decided that God had called her to Liverpool and agreed to become matron of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary at Brownlow Hill . |
| 14 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 15 | Signatories of the nuclear Partial Test Ban Treaty ( PTBT ) signed in August 1963 [ see pp. 19553-60 ] , met in New York on Jan. 7-18 and agreed to achieve progress towards a comprehensive test ban . |
| 16 | Matches are videotaped and charted to keep track of errors and winners . |
| 17 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 18 | It was held that they could be convicted a second time and made to pay compensation to a second victim who had read a copy of the same brochure . |
| 19 | Among the dead , apart from laymen like the mayor of York , were many priests and clerks , both seculars and regulars ; among the captured was William Ayermine , chief clerk of the chancery , who was ransomed subsequently for 2000 marks and lived to become bishop of Norwich in 1325 . |
| 20 | It was financed by the Duke of Portland and built to carry coal from his mines in the Kilmarnock district to Troon harbour . |
| 21 | Eighteen Nottinghamshire practices were randomly selected from the family practitioner committee ( now family health services authority ) list and invited to take part in the study . |
| 22 | Barker ( 1984 ) had the unusual experience of being approached and invited to do research into a very enclosed group in which she was already interested , the Unification Church . |
| 23 | We were easy targets for ridicule , and because we were angered and hurt by all of this , we withdrew further into ourselves , and stopped having contact with heterosexual women almost entirely . |
| 24 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 25 | Many there were for executing this weak nephew of their late King there and then ; but Moray , who was his kinsman , pleaded for his life with the Regent , and promised to stand surety for his better behaviour in the future . |
| 26 | Is it true that among the inquiry 's recommendations are the provision of signalling alterations , the installation of new protective devices and changed signalling practice at that and other junctions , which may cause delays to approaching trains ? |
| 27 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 28 | The aged Duke Hunold was defeated , and fled to take refuge with Lupus , Duke of the Gascons . |
| 29 | Conker hurried to begin with , gregarious as usual , then he slowed and tried to snatch grass from the hedgerows , the long stalks of cow parsley dangling from his mouth . |
| 30 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |