Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presented on Nov. 28 and given a first reading on Dec. 1 , the new law had replaced an initial draft of Nov. 5 which had been immediately rejected . |
| 2 | This patient was put on a yeast-free diet , and given a second psychiatric assessment when her bowel symptoms had resolved . |
| 3 | Those who accepted his commandments were to be judged in punctilious accordance with the law , whereas the ignorant savage in the darkened jungle who could not possibly have known the light would be treated with gentleness and given a second chance . |
| 4 | In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth . |
| 5 | I then counted three needles each to the right and left and transferred the next stitch to adjacent needles as well , leaving the empty needles in non-working position . |
| 6 | Thirdly , that each child will have assessed themselves and done the first draft of the personal action plan . |
| 7 | London agency Media & Design Associates has written and produced the first issue of a special twice-a-year publication for Taylor Woodrow pension fund members in the wake of the Robert Maxwell scandal . |
| 8 | By the age of twenty-four she had published her second novel , given birth to and buried a second daughter , buried her first son , given birth to a second , and received a letter describing the death by drowning and the cremation of her husband . |
| 9 | Taff , the mortar team , and all the others who were present one day and gone the next , some to hospital in England , and others to a shallow grave here in Normandy . |
| 10 | The whole family liked to be heard , as if they wanted people to know they were alive in a world where young and old alike were here one day and gone the next . |
| 11 | It 's just a man failing to reappear , that 's all — now you see him , now you do n't that 's the only thing that 's real : here one minute and gone the next and never coming back — an exit , unobtrusive and unannounced , a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on , until , finally , it is heavy with death . |
| 12 | ‘ In my occupation the people you meet tend to be here one day and gone the next — or I am , since I work freelance . |
| 13 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 14 | With Noakes 's help , they formed a pillow from two sheets , and fixed a third behind the slab to make a screen . |
| 15 | He removed Ace 's explosives from his pockets , and fixed the first pack to the ceiling directly above him , flicking the arming switch with the sensor positioned ahead . |
| 16 | In last month 's issue , The Art Newspaper published the list of artists who have been included in this ambitious survey and identified a second list of candidates whom Rosenthal and Joachimedes had decided to ignore . |
| 17 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 18 | Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph . |
| 19 | Her mother 's maids would have overheard and repeated every last word through the village before the day 's end . |