Example sentences of "and [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 2 | Luckily he was engaged on operational matters when his ‘ guest ’ arrived , and turned him over temporarily to his intelligence officer , a flight lieutenant called Benson , who recognized the symptoms instantly and prescribed a double whisky . |
| 3 | Establishing the outside measurements , I completed a scaled drawing of the boardroom space and placed a suitable rectangle within it . |
| 4 | He stretched out an arm and placed a gnarled hand tenderly on her scarred brow ; then he turned back to me . |
| 5 | I built two caves at the back , and placed a flat rock at each back corner to give a choice of spawning areas . |
| 6 | Robyn looked up from the kitchen sink and placed a washed plate on to the draining-board . |
| 7 | In the second half , Thame came more in to the game and created a couple of chances , however in the sixty fifth minute , Sean Liden won the ball on the halfway line , his long ball found Gary Weaving who turned and placed a low shot past Mayhew to make it one nil . |
| 8 | A full cabinet reshuffle two weeks later seemed , at first sight , to be designed to appease the Falangist sector , for it included the creation of a separate Ministry of Labour ( it had been covered by the Ministry of Agriculture thereto ) and placed a hard-line Falangist , José Antonio Girón de Velasco , at its head . |
| 9 | His face assumed the condition of … rigid fixedness while in council … ; he kept his immense ceremonial hat on , and placed a large eagle 's wing in front of his eyes and nose ’ . |
| 10 | The Prince looked at Owen , laughed archly and placed a placating hand on Owen 's . |
| 11 | Liam Herbert , one of the shortest players on the pitch , rose above the defenders and placed a fine header past keeper Duncan Green to make it one nil . |
| 12 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 13 | He smiled , then leaned across and placed a white stone on the board , breaching the space between two of the black masses , threatening to cut . |
| 14 | Ireland coach Cess Koppelaar put his players through a one-hour training stint yesterday morning , and placed a heavy emphasis on shooting practice . |
| 15 | Nathan had come up now , and placed a heavy hand on Tristram 's shoulder , " Hollo ! " he boomed . |
| 16 | The loss of Elliott left Hammer very lightweight in attack and placed a heavy burden on regular strikers White and Harris . |
| 17 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 18 | As a legal precedent section 2(5) of the 1981 Education Act was significant because it was addressed directly to governing bodies and assigned a primary role to them rather than the local authorities . |
| 19 | Such employees are designated ‘ business users ’ and assigned a special code on the system indicating that they are out on business . |
| 20 | Although Henslow 's teaching was not part of the undergraduate curriculum , interested students were taken on field trips and given a good grounding in the science of the time . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 'd like to find out what it 's like to be put over my knee and given a good thrashing in a public place that 's probably the best way to do it . ’ |
| 22 | Within half an hour he had contacted those he trusted on the council and given a good account as to why he should fill the vacant seat . |
| 23 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 24 | ‘ In the meantime you 'd notified the police of Connie Fraser 's disappearance , and given a nice time check , all verified by the hospital staff . ’ |
| 25 | Many Brush-built Class 31s were equipped with ETH generators and given a major body overhaul , while some Class 47s were similarly treated . |
| 26 | A novice struggling through one of Manze 's pies — crisp golden pastry on top and soggy pastry below — is quickly spotted and given a cursory instruction in the art of pie-eating by a Bermondsey-born professional . |
| 27 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |
| 28 | Volunteers are interviewed , asked for references and given a three-month trial . |
| 29 | Of course quality of care has always been of professional concern in the NHS , but it was firmly placed on managerial agendas by the Griffiths management reforms in 1983 and given a substantial boost by WFP . |
| 30 | Whitehaven in Cumbria was begun in 1660 by the local Lowther family and given a spacious grid of streets and a new harbour . |