Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Young , wealthy , good-looking , gay , and turned on by crime , Nathan and Richard spend their time partying with friends , having sex , reminiscing about arson . |
| 32 | Ron Letts was knocked down and run over by thieves at a scrap metal yard three months ago . |
| 33 | A TERRIFIED youngster was chased and run down by teenagers on a motorcycle as he played with friends in a park . |
| 34 | Vincent was sold into private ownership and was reborn as a very luxurious yacht a few years later , often to be seen and remarked on by cutter crews in yachting circles . |
| 35 | And get out by Friday . |
| 36 | But you 'd better bear in mind , I 've been worked-over and walked over by experts . |
| 37 | At times , when they were tired and worn down by Iran 's ever escalating requests , the Americans were ready to promise almost anything to get the hostages out . |
| 38 | Tilda clambered over the washboard , and clinging on by fingers and toes to the strakes , half slithered and half climbed down the side , gathered up the cat and skimmed across to Rochester . |
| 39 | If you like being condemned to death and followed around by loonies with slippers on and becoming involved with weird prophecies from the dawn of time , it 's a lot of fun ! |
| 40 | ‘ It 'll be driven mad and killed off by machinery . |
| 41 | Jam , chocolate , and biscuits began to be produced under factory conditions and shipped out by rail , thus introducing household names in food-production like Huntley and Palmer at Reading and Cadbury at Bournville . |
| 42 | It was during one of these that he was spotted by a talent scout and signed up by Warner Brothers . |
| 43 | Significantly ( in comparison with the advice for wartime Britain , and the new planning problem that was then urgently confronted ) suggestions for the planning of developed areas were cautious in the extreme and hedged about by restrictions due to liability to compensation . |
| 44 | Expedition models can have a snow valance on the fly — an extra skirt around the bottom which can be laid on the ground and anchored down by snow or rocks . |
| 45 | " The Meeting have taken it into Consideration the Complaints which every member of this Meeting have now stated , that their Dykes and Inclosures are very much Damaged and broke down by passengers assuming to themselves a right to take Cross and Short Cuts thro' Inclosures … |
| 46 | Dated-product manufacturers will try and sell out by year-end , so repeat orders before Christmas can be a problem . |
| 47 | In the Fannichs , the magnificent line of Skyscraper Buttress was climbed by Chris Cartwright and Robin Clothier ( ‘ an easy V ’ ) and abseiled off by Wilson Moir and Niall Ritchie ( ‘ a tottering heap of rubble ’ ) . |
| 48 | Attacked and driven out by men , Giant Wolves have allied with Goblin tribes . |
| 49 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 50 | The team were superbly prepared and the younger players — many of whom were recruited and brought on by Cottam — made further progress . |
| 51 | Kimura has always accepted that morphological evolution is adaptive , and brought about by selection as Darwin proposed . |
| 52 | Enter lively atoms of uranium-235 , soon stirred up by Punk-neutrons and slowed down by Mods . |
| 53 | I used to think , That 's a woman 's lot — forever being prodded and poked and looked up by doctors who are total strangers . |
| 54 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 55 | Any sent will be copied and sent back by return of post . |
| 56 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 57 | The strike lasted several weeks ; she picketed throughout , was abused and spat on by nurses who thought that striking was wrong . |
| 58 | Having set off in great style from Salzburg in their own carriage , they were now so impecunious that they were obliged to sell it before the frontier and go on by postchaise . |
| 59 | Reacting both against existing conditions in Russia and against the prospect of capitalist development they built upon the specifically Russian socialism adumbrated by the Petrashevtsy and spelled out by Herzen . |
| 60 | Next morning Tess walked to Shaston , a town she hardly knew , and went on by waggon to Trantridge . |