Example sentences of "and [verb] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed the lessons a great deal , and became fascinated by Greek . |
| 2 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
| 3 | Some of the marooned passengers were less confident , and became unnerved by the uncertainties , the delay , the heat . |
| 4 | If the specimen is immersed face-down , bubbles can not be released and remain attracted by surface tension to the surface , locally impeding further reaction and giving a very uneven etch . |
| 5 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 6 | I think he went to visit my mother and got incarcerated by accident . |
| 7 | Murray said : ‘ Jones has worked hard at his game and has progressed by leaps and bounds . |
| 8 | A good suggestion might be , in the past this child has suffered a loss of some figure it was dependent on , and has compensated by becoming highly independent . |
| 9 | At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffoldings and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore . |
| 10 | At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffolding and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore . |
| 11 | At one stage of his tour of the camp at Caister-on-Sea , the prince pinned a badge proclaiming ‘ Charlie Says Rave On ’ to his lapel , and seemed fascinated by the idea of all-night rave parties . |
| 12 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 13 | Henry turned his head and seemed absorbed by his Staffordshire figures . |
| 14 | On the whole , however , their ideas concerning the political organization of descent-group society , what they call the ‘ gentile constitution ’ , are surprisingly modern and helpful and seem supported by more recent findings . |
| 15 | Lack of space in which to build laterally resulted in this characteristic Edinburgh townscape of early tower blocks , often with additional lower floors invisible from the street , clinging to the cliffs and reached through narrow wynds , vennels and closes overshadowed by the dark flanks of buildings stained by the smoke of those ‘ Auld Reekie ’ years . |
| 16 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 17 | It 's a sad fact that you can walk down almost any High Street in Britain and get conned by false ‘ sale ’ posters in shop windows . |
| 18 | He saw friends drown in rivers and get shot by bandits . |
| 19 | Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one . |
| 20 | We went to the races and watched Nolan ride Fiona 's horse Groundsel and get beaten by a length into second place , and we watched Sam ride two of Tremayne 's runners unprofitably and then win for another trainer . |
| 21 | The whole philosophy in emergency medicine is think of the ABCs — not to overlook a potentially life-threatening injury and get distracted by a more dramatic but less serious injury . |
| 22 | On December 27 during a Soviet-backed coup Kabul , President Hafizzollah Amin was ousted and killed Regarded by Moscow as an incompetent he had failed to prevent the killing of Soviet " military advisers " in January and had proved incapable of controlling the Muslim rebels who opposed his government Amin was in danger of being over-thrown by a militant Muslim regime . |
| 23 | Always toast and dripping followed by a good hot dish . |
| 24 | Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident . |
| 25 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 26 | The sophisticated systems of electro-chemical replacement and depletion gilding and silvering developed by Andean metallurgists during the first millennium before Christ were designed first and foremost as symbols of rank , power and religious force . |
| 27 | Gide was , at least at that time , the sexual tourist of which Said and others have written , his opportunity to come and go enhanced by what is aptly if euphemistically called independent means . |
| 28 | He glimpsed Dame Agatha smiling mischievously at him and felt comforted by her friendship . |
| 29 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 30 | She took advantage with both elbows of the luxury of padded arms , and felt soothed by the warm , impersonal darkness , the bovine torpor of those around her , and her own pleased consciousness of wasting time and money when she should have been studying . |