Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week I 'm a mining man and the week after I 'll have a wife , one already arranged for and waiting . |
| 2 | He shall be substituted for and succeeded by his wife , the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza . |
| 3 | The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ . |
| 4 | Changes in the container as well as in the product should be looked for and reported . |
| 5 | Despite his many sales of things from Douglas Cooper 's collection , a substantial amount of art remained , much of it in Switzerland , where it was looked after and catalogued by Billy 's curator , Dorothy Kozinski . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've got to be carefully looked after and tested . |
| 7 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 8 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 9 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 10 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 11 | I am very concerned about women , their rights and how they are looked after and protected at work . |
| 12 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 13 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 14 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 15 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 16 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 17 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 18 | Those too poor to qualify for this pension were further discriminated against and left to poor relief . |
| 19 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 20 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 21 | The question was not whether the judge had made a wrong decision but whether he had inquired into and decided a matter which he had no right to consider . |
| 22 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 23 | There the work was carried out until the L & B Railway had amalgamated with and leased a number of small lines , notably the Birmingham and Manchester , Liverpool and Manchester , and the South Staffordshire Railways . |
| 24 | Once the motion is voted upon and has been carried , it becomes the resolution of the meeting . |
| 25 | There are things certain things I 'm committed to and to have time off means I still got to be able to do those things . |
| 26 | On the other hand , there 'll be a range of different things I could become committed to and do well . |
| 27 | But again there need be no problem in the marriage if the partner is equally committed to and supports the career climb . |
| 28 | The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place . |
| 29 | Each croft had its own allocation of peat banks , the location of which was strictly adhered to and controlled by the local grazing committee . |
| 30 | It also repays the effort to clarify one 's own strengths and weaknesses , for an objective inventory of what one is good and bad at , finds easy and difficult , is attracted to and repelled by , helps in two ways . |