Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Services Marketing Strategy — for marketers of products that can not be touched or seen and which are highly dependent on people for the quality of output . |
| 2 | What I wanted was an area marked ‘ The sort of place where an average girl out on her own wo n't get mugged or raped and she can get a cheap bed for the night , no questions asked . ’ |
| 3 | By 1830 , however , membership had more than halved and it was thought prudent to change the rules to limit its functions more closely to those of a conventional benefit society , thereby earning the support of some local shipowners and a personage no less elevated than His Grace the Duke of Northumberland . |
| 4 | Whisky , because of its strength , is ‘ nosed ’ rather than tasted and it 's Frank 's job to sniff his way through barrels when their ten years are up . |
| 5 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 6 | In Rylands v. Fletcher possible defences to the rule were no more than outlined and we must look to later decisions for their development . |
| 7 | It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it ! |
| 8 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 9 | He looked tired and drawn and her heart went out to him , but when he caught sight of Belinda the smile was back on his face . |
| 10 | Cathy was pale and drawn and she looked tired-not , he thought , like a woman who , expecting the sack , had found herself owning the business . |
| 11 | Staff should always feel able to call upon a colleague if needed and there should be no sense of inadequacy or incompetence felt in doing so . |
| 12 | The distances between combination fences should be walked and noted and you must decide which route to take if there is a choice . |
| 13 | A grey day in a cold April , one of those winter's-end days when the land looks exhausted and worn and it seems like all the colour is gone from the world . |
| 14 | Bishop Laurence , who was consecrated in I 251 , was another Bishop who saw his Cathedral looted and abused and his monks killed when the city was besieged by Simon de Montfort , Earl of Leicester , in the year 1264 . |
| 15 | The wooden fingers of his false left hand were bent and damaged and he turned it slowly under the light . |
| 16 | A deadline was set up but it has come and gone and we no have no alternative but to reclaim the shares and place them back on the market . |
| 17 | been and gone and we 're now getting ready for Easter , all these and cards are coming into the shops and |
| 18 | Autobiography is when you 're dead and gone and they write about you . |
| 19 | For all the others have taken their gifts and gone and I have come to look for him . " |
| 20 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 21 | The Purple Hour had come and gone and it was full night now , so that moonlight lay across the forest , gleaming coldly , silvering the outlines of the Trees and the silhouettes of the awakening naiads and dryads . |
| 22 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 23 | Her friends have been and gone and she does . |
| 24 | When he re-emerged a quarter of an hour later , wearing yesterday 's denim shorts and white T-shirt topped by a guernsey with fraying cuffs , he had showered and shaved and his hair was freshly combed . |
| 25 | Ms Armstrong said : ‘ I 'm NorthEast born and bred and it has not interfered with my career . |
| 26 | finds , trying to make room for the cross , he 's tackled and tackled and it 's only a goal kick . |
| 27 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |
| 28 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 29 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 30 | Others can make a loud noise when stopped and you have to turn the volume down . |