Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A check of the water 's temperature is often made on the spot and smaller samples may also be taken and treated immediately to enable a measurement of dissolved oxygen to be made , or to fix for the presence of certain substances such as cyanide . |
| 2 | It was thin and ragged , and folded forward to hide a growing bald patch . |
| 3 | An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny . |
| 4 | Caldas had once been a favourite family haunt , she recalled wistfully , and had the local bus service not meandered into every far-flung hamlet on its way and taken forever to make the journey she would have been back long ago . |
| 5 | Like the sawed bloodied pieces of shin and gristle in the butcher 's , shoved into a sacking bag and taken home to feed the dogs . |
| 6 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |