Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 2 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 3 | A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall . |
| 4 | They got ashore dry shod — as they described those landings in which you do not get your feet wet — but in these harsh conditions , Lieutenant Arthur Komrower suffered severe back and leg injuries when he was crushed between a rock and the 10-ton assault craft that had been on fire . |
| 5 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |
| 6 | Set in the prohibition era , it gleefully played with conventions , maximised Monroe 's diaphanous ( cf the scene where she attempts to arouse the supposedly impotent Curtis ) and coaxed a manic , uproarious turn from Lemmon , on the run from gangsters , disguised as a woman and pursued by a randy millionaire . |
| 7 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 8 | ( The directories are created by the system administrators , who run a UNIX shell script that takes the login name of each student registered for a course and prepares a directory accordingly . ) |
| 9 | The Denby Dale Pie Trust was registered as a charity and ‘ pie ‘ 88 ’ was on its way . |
| 10 | Generally , if security is given for a debt and default is made in repayment of that debt , the secured creditor is entitled to appoint a receiver to safeguard his interest . |
| 11 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 12 | It must be stressed that the above figures are only intended as a GUIDE and every claim must be considered on its merits . |
| 13 | The proposals are intended as a package and not for piecemeal negotiation . |
| 14 | All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor . |
| 15 | Each section was examined through a microscope and scored by a single observer ( without knowledge of tissue type or site of origin ) from zero to four depending on the number of cells reacting . |
| 16 | By an order dated 24 January 1992 Cazalet J. granted the local authority leave to issue a summons under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court for W. to be given medical treatment without her consent and directed that she be joined as a defendant and the Official Solicitor be appointed as her guardian ad litem . |
| 17 | On an application by B. to be joined as a party and for an order that the money in court should not be paid out to the solicitors for the interim government : — |
| 18 | The 1993 shipment plan for the R4000 depends on the availability schedule of the multiprocessing version , delayed for a year and now in final testing , Brown said . |
| 19 | Anne thinks he was probably reared as a pet and then dumped . |
| 20 | He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’ |
| 21 | At the slightest sign of originality in approach or technique a director might well be regarded as a menace and any departure from the hoary formula adhered to by the executives could be considered highly presumptuous . |
| 22 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 23 | The conference was misleadingly regarded as a success and as reversing the trend in relations . |
| 24 | Myanma 's military-dominated regime , however , which had refused to implement the results of the May 1990 general election won by the NLD , made it clear that Suu Kyi was regarded as a troublemaker and that she would remain under house arrest ; she had refused to renounce political involvement and go into exile . |
| 25 | The latter was regarded as a conservative and a Russian nationalist , as was Rasputin , a celebrated poet and the only non-communist in the Council . |
| 26 | Tumin also questions the view that the training required for important positions should be regarded as a sacrifice and therefore in need of compensation . |
| 27 | The second is the position apparently preferred by the police itself : where it is not subject to the whims of party politics and can develop what it considers to be the best safeguard for the community — the professionalization of the police force , in other words , it wants to be regarded as a profession and , like the medical and legal professions , to be left to do its job according to its own discretion . |
| 28 | No film received as much publicity as I am a Fugitive and that was a film more conventional than most critics suspected and which only attacked corrupt and degrading aspects of the South , a part of the country always regarded as a backwater and therefore as relatively easy game . |
| 29 | At best Gordievsky was tolerated by the authorities but still regarded as a traitor and untrustworthy . |
| 30 | Avraham Shochat , who became Minister of Finance , was regarded as a technocrat and as an advocate of increased privatization ; he first became a Knesset member in 1988 . |