Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening he was summoned to the bedside of a dying lawyer , who had first robbed and then seduced a female client . |
| 2 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 3 | My therapy with Dr Gyggle had continued and now entered a new phase . |
| 4 | The young ones were less strongly coloured and still had a downy look about them . |
| 5 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 6 | As the float rose the shaft rotated and so did a circular metal plate attached to the end of it . |