Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next moment a huge bus with Jumbo El Rapido on the side tore past overtaking and cutting in front . |
| 2 | On the other hand , where a woman undergoes an operation for sterilisation which is negligently performed and she subsequently becomes pregnant she can recover damages in respect of the pain and suffering endured in carrying and giving birth to the child : Udale v Bloomsbury Area Health Authority [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1098 . |
| 3 | The mill itself is now a private museum devoted to cornmilling and other rural industries , and is open to the public every day from March to October , and at weekends in the winter months . |
| 4 | Beneath their discursiveness , these books exhibit a coherent social theory : the way to social progress lay in the rational wills of individuals , and true philanthropy consisted in supporting and strengthening that rational will rather than in the mechanical relief of poverty . |
| 5 | On the same day , work began on reconstructing and rebuilding telecommunications buildings and the following day a campaign was launched to repair damaged roads and bridges . |
| 6 | The accountants ' error lay in receiving and acting upon a further claim which had not been in their terms of reference and had not been notified to the other party . |
| 7 | Just as he was leaving , Paisley arrived and the meeting broke into cheering and clapping . |
| 8 | The sudden cooling of the heated surface resulted in spalling and fracturing . |
| 9 | The pistol hardly jerked at all as each bolt ejaculated before incandescing and zipping away . |
| 10 | A Dacia 1300 picked up the friend-of-a-friend and the driver and his passenger fell to talking and telling jokes . |
| 11 | The main obstacles in this area lay in analysing and approaching suitable targets . |
| 12 | The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on . |
| 13 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 14 | Nearly two months later the patient complained of itching and cholestasis was diagnosed . |
| 15 | But the problem remained of seeing and being seen . |
| 16 | But the problem remained of seeing and being seen . |
| 17 | The table did for working and eating ; the mattress ( put straight on the floor and covered in black tweed ) did for sleeping and lounging ; and the steps made extra seating areas as well with the help of large flat black or white cushions which stacked like striped playbricks when not in use . |