Example sentences of "and [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Hulsta Mill , near Stockholm , thousands of trees are brought in and stripped of their bark every day . |
| 2 | The Iraqi military leaders were arriving out of sight of cameras , under allied escort , and stripped of their weapons . |
| 3 | He knew her every move and she had seen and heard of his like since childhood . |
| 4 | But nothing sustained and organised of this kind was ever contemplated in London . |
| 5 | Why , by the time Prince Richard is fifteen and considered of an age to really marry , I shall be eighteen . |
| 6 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 7 | What we are endeavouring to and the company has not as yet went out and dispersed of apprentices willy-nilly . |
| 8 | In less dramatic contexts , for de-clawed cats kept indoors ( and robbed of all outdoor pleasures ) , even the simple act of climbing up on to a chair or a window-ledge may prove hazardous . |
| 9 | A TERRIFIED 12-year-old girl was attacked and robbed of a £5 Christmas present . |
| 10 | Police were called but arrived too late to stop him mugging 60-year-old Rose McDevitt , who was knocked to the floor and robbed of her handbag as she waited for the lift . |
| 11 | He 's not too taken with Calcutta and is planning to return to the United States when he 's mugged and robbed of all his possessions . |
| 12 | A EURO Disney hotel cashier was stabbed to death and robbed of cash he was putting in a safe at the Paris fun park yesterday . |
| 13 | Lee would pick out a suitably drunk customer , extol the virtues of his " sister " and then lure the man into a nearby darkened alley where , more often than not , the customer was attacked and robbed of everything he had on him , sometimes even his clothing . |
| 14 | A taxi driver was attacked and robbed of £35 by two men as he left his office in Coperative Terrace , Backworth , North Tyneside , early yesterday . |
| 15 | A woman , aged 70 , was recovering at home yesterday after being attacked and robbed of her handbag as she was walking in Ernest Street , Boldon Colliery , after a night out playing bingo . |
| 16 | A 79-year-old woman who was attacked and robbed of her handbag as she walked near Gateshead town centre has been admitted to hospital for observation after suffering a heart flutter brought on by stress . |
| 17 | A 15-year-old boy was attacked by a group of youths and robbed of a gold chain in the Smith 's Dock Park area of Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | DETECTIVES are investigating after a teenager was threatened and robbed of cash on his way to the bank . |
| 19 | Earlier this week in Surrey , a businessman 's wife was beaten and robbed of seventy five thousand pound 's worth of jewellery after being attacked in her sports car on the M Twenty Five . |
| 20 | A SCHOOLBOY was pinned against a wall and robbed of cash by a four-man gang after his pockets were searched . |
| 21 | The present house is old , with a west gable wall , 8 feet thick and built of solid stone . |
| 22 | It is twelfth century and built of a pale honey-coloured stone . |
| 23 | It was set around a complete quadrangle , and built of rusticated stone . |
| 24 | From what I have read and seen of Crumlin Road Prison , the conditions there could hardly be more austere , particularly for remand prisoners ( who , let it not be forgotten , are innocent until proven guilty ) . |
| 25 | Councillor perhaps you could erm tell us the cost both spent and anticipated of writing this rather erm new electoral role leaflet that might be coming out if we feel like it ? |
| 26 | He followed the trend into feature-length films and directed One Million BC and produced Of Mice and Men . |
| 27 | She sympathized with and approved of , if never quite comprehended , Edward 's intense love of the special happiness that he found in the heart of the country when absorbed with his rare intensity in sights , sounds , and scents . |
| 28 | The justification for this was expressed to be that it would thus be open to a court at a later date to review the matter of sex determination Ormrod J. 's decision , much cited and approved of in the House of Commons debate , evidently will remain the law . |
| 29 | My father , on the other hand , never went to church though he never denigrated my mother 's choice and approved of his children being raised as God-fearing . |
| 30 | Dressed in black with a white shirt , her blue-black hair severely braided under a black Córdoba hat , she was the very image of the brother whom Maggie had seen and dreamed of so long ago . |