Example sentences of "[prep] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The car was very well looked after and meticulously maintained . |
| 2 | Has it been looked after and well maintained ? |
| 3 | In the 1990's , we may well be heading towards the classless society so sought after and well documented of politicians , yet the Royal Berkshire Club , built within the existing framework of a society which demands ever higher standards in its leisure facilities , remains a class act in its own right . |
| 4 | The LR 2.25 diesel is a very reliable unit if looked after and not abused and will last many miles . |
| 5 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
| 6 | Both aircraft acknowledged simultaneously , but because the DC-10 was much closer to London Radar 's VHF receiver mast its call totally drowned out the Concorde 's call , and seconds later the Concorde , climbing without clearance , flew through the flight path of and narrowly missed , a Twin Otter . |
| 7 | ‘ The same lamb you put a rope round the neck of and then chased into the German minefield ? ’ |
| 8 | For them the library essentially is the college and contains it ; it is not a question of libraries being placed in departments , but of departments being regarded as essential facets of and often included within , the library . |
| 9 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 10 | Willis deeply respected Richard , whom he privately thought of and sometimes called aloud , the Skipper . |
| 11 | All our sketches are much approved of and highly complimented by our friends . |
| 12 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 13 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 14 | Since they are going to bc not just living room but bedroom , dining room , and very often office as well , this means that every inch of space has to be dual-purpose if not multi-functional , and every activity has to be properly catered for and duly compartmented . |
| 15 | Christer Pettersson , who was sentenced for and then acquitted of the murder in February 1986 of the Prime Minister , Olof Palme , was on May 2 , 1990 , awarded 300,000 kronor in damages for the 10 months he had spent in custody . |
| 16 | There are , of course , moments like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ that make you wish the NHS paid for and hygienically destroyed ‘ Been there — done that — got it out of my system in the studio ’ bouts of maudlin croaking . |
| 17 | The students came from different races in Burma — a few Burmans , more Karens , a Chin or two , a Kachin and several Anglo-Burmans and one Indian ; so living , learning and worshipping together called for and indeed produced a spirit of racial understanding and unity . |
| 18 | Well , what about Michael went on his arms during and absolutely wrecked his arm ! |
| 19 | Often such matters have never been previously talked about and instead left to fester in bad relationships , complaining , negative attitudes and lack of drive . |
| 20 | As the title of this present show suggests , there are works from those early student days with a leavening from his period of teaching in between and now brought up to date with a batch of more recent work . |
| 21 | Jenna poured herself some coffee and sat opposite , deciding to face things through and not run as she had intended . |
| 22 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 23 | Nearer to the Buid , Morris has described the Melanau of Borneo as living in a ‘ highly diversified social environment in which many cultural and linguistic groups are interspersed with and closely related to one another ’ ( 1967 : 216 ) . |
| 24 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 25 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 26 | Economic policy was the core of Reagan 's programme and especial care was taken to ensure that those primarily responsible for economic matters were fully conversant with and totally committed to the president 's position . |
| 27 | A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain . |
| 28 | It is at this point that the analogy between anorexia nervosa and hysteria , which Freud saw as separate from and possibly opposed to the obsessional neuroses , seems to break down , along with Dally 's separation of the two as different forms of the disease . |
| 29 | In the ommatidia they occur as proteinaceous granules in the pigment cells surrounding the crystalline cone and retinulae ; they are distinct from and sometimes masked by the ommochrome pigments that may also be present . |
| 30 | The agonies of the north , both for the local populace and for the king and realm , were by no means at an end yet , but in Edward II 's reign they reached a scale unapproached before and not exceeded afterwards . |