Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drew myself up to my full 4 feet 8 inches , flared my pupils at the teacher , picked up my scarlet skirt , Vivien Leigh-style , and , with a thud , parquet met felt and felt met parquet . |
| 2 | A report released in late March by a UN relief team which had recently visited Iraq stated that the bombing had caused " near-apocalyptic results " and had relegated Iraq to a " pre-industrial age " . |
| 3 | For one thing , she knew very little of the Empress 's plans and had sensed Ypres 's disappointment in her replies . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 5 | Last year 's fantasy was that Mossad , the Israeli secret service , had sent prostitutes to Egypt to spread AIDS , and had contaminated fruit and vegetables with the AIDS virus . |
| 6 | She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams . |
| 7 | Time and again those brought to trial reveal proper trades and had completed apprenticeships . |
| 8 | Captain Frederick Roy-Smith was serving in Germany in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and had seen Rottweilers who had impressed him greatly , especially with their working ability . |
| 9 | Now , if they seen a miracle , if they had been there before and had seen Jesus do something like this , then it would appear that they would have ev , that Jesus would have every reason for saying , oh you faithless people ! |
| 10 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 11 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 12 | We had now spent three weeks at Aubagne and had seen detachments move off to Castelnaudary , and numerous people rejected . |
| 13 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |
| 14 | In the time of Henry VII he had stripped the whole of Fife of oak and fir trees in order to build a huge man-of-war , the Great St Michael , and had given hospitality to the impostor Perkin Warbeck as son of Edward IV and therefore rightful king of England . |
| 15 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 16 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 17 | Annie was broad-hipped and had given birth to overweight babies with no difficulty . |
| 18 | The pair were said to have admitted their opposition to the " Four Cardinal Principles " ( namely , the socialist system , the dictatorship of the proletariat , the leadership of the Communist Party , and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong thought ) and had given assurances that they would " not engage in activities directed against China after they leave the country " . |
| 19 | A state of emergency was ordered for Baku by the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 19 , after demonstrators had massed for three consecutive days outside the Azerbaijan CP central committee 's headquarters to demand the leadership 's resignation , and had erected barricades on the city 's outskirts to prevent the entry of Soviet troops . |
| 20 | I remembered the last time I had seen him , on the half-landing on the stairs , and how we looked at one another — as if he had sensed it would be our last encounter — and had shaken hands and said goodbye . |
| 21 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |
| 22 | and had raised £43.50 for the Guide Dogs , while the whole hospital team had raised over £1,800 . |
| 23 | One of the photographs had been published in US newspapers in July and had increased speculation over the fate of MIAs in Indo-China [ see p.38344 ] . |
| 24 | Women 's organizations , although disappointed at the outcome , took heart that the episode had placed sexual harassment in the workplace firmly on the political agenda and had increased prospects for legislation to attack this . |
| 25 | By 10.35 with 735 kilometres of autobahn behind them they were swinging past Frankfurt and had reached Cologne by 11.25 . |
| 26 | Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and had reached Jericho . |
| 27 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 28 | Just as Harry was preparing to aim a kick at this driver where it might hurt , the man offered him more milk , saying that he was a Frenchman doing forced labour and had recognised Harry 's RAF uniform — by now extremely unsuitable for pay parade ! |
| 29 | But the luxurious tropical oasis that was the Hamiltons ' house , and the fact that she saw Tom every day and had become friends with him , had led her to drop her guard without fully realising that she had done so , and now she was utterly vulnerable to him . |
| 30 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |