Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was draped with ruby velvet and furnished with gilded chairs . |
| 32 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 33 | Bedrooms are spacious , and furnished in traditional style ; some take third or fourth beds . |
| 34 | There are also two stuberls decorated and furnished in traditional ‘ farmers style ’ , where locals meet to drink , play cards and enjoy good food . |
| 35 | The pastry cases are cooked blind ( do not forget to prick the base with the tip of a sharp little knife ) protected with paper ( it burns easily , like all pastry containing sugar ) and filled with dry beans or rice . |
| 36 | Evening meals include such delights as ‘ fresh sea bass , wrapped in lettuce leaves and filled with sorrel and tarragon ’ , and desserts such as ‘ lime mousse with passionfruit sauce ’ . |
| 37 | New this Christmas are Whisky Thistle Truffles , each moulded into a thistle shape and filled with real whisky truffle centres . |
| 38 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 39 | Five miles outside Machynlleth in central Wales the centre occupies a disused quarry which has been surrounded with windmills and filled with gleaming solarpanels . |
| 40 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
| 41 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 42 | All these factors produce an environment which is dry , dusty and filled with microscopic spores and dust mite droppings which sensitize the linings of the lungs , throat , nose and eyes . |
| 43 | The lagoons would be lined and filled with organic waste , after recyclable materials had been separated . |
| 44 | It 's all to be found within the borders of Thailand … a country rich in history , blessed with sun-drenched beaches and filled with charming people . |
| 45 | The voice on the other end of the telephone line was abrupt and filled with contained excitement . |
| 46 | Each had a large fourposter bed , an oaken wardrobe , a table , stool and chair , whilst the arrow-slit windows had been widened and filled with tinted glass . |
| 47 | The nightclub was dark and exclusive and filled with beautiful people . |
| 48 | Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish . |
| 49 | The beaches are wide and filled with interesting flotsam and jetsam from shells and seaweed to bits of broken fish boxes . |
| 50 | He stood , looking , and there was the movement again ; the blurring of shapes and silhouettes that were like nothing Floy had ever imagined ; inHuman and ancient and filled with wild woodland enchantment … |
| 51 | They were people , beings , half-formed creatures who might have been strange and beautiful and filled with wild , woodland magic . |
| 52 | He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church . |
| 53 | A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water . |
| 54 | Left The pivotal dresser , restored to its original colour and bedecked with potatoprinted spongeware from Wales , Scotland and Ireland |
| 55 | Drab and perhaps a little the worse for wear , sedate in unpretentious boards or cloth , they are cherished far more than copies reclothed and bedecked in elegant calf and morocco . |
| 56 | Nevertheless , there are cases in which underlying sexual difficulty can be traced and adjusted with far-reaching results in reducing other problems to manageable proportions . |
| 57 | There a barren woman is a potential witch and punished with low status and harsh treatment . |
| 58 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 59 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 60 | Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction . |