Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the advice of a friend , she applied for and got a freelance job with the BBC in Plymouth . |
| 2 | BSB 's original backers , who applied for and won the contract to broadcast from 31° West , signed to use MAC . |
| 3 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 4 | The men in the technical crew , unpaid , were earning their way by filming the fiesta for the B.B.C. The Bedouins , whom Cecil cared for and saw to be poor , were being paid in private out of Cecil 's own pocket . |
| 5 | It asked for and received the help of the ruler of the Hohenstaufen ( Germanic ) Empire , Frederik 1 , known as Barbarossa ( ‘ Red Beard ’ ) who crossed the Alps and attacked Milan . |
| 6 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 7 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 8 | The existence of a strong Hellenizing party in Jerusalem , which asked for and obtained the support of the Seleucid king , explains what in Hellenistic terms was the exceptional behaviour of Antiochus IV . |
| 9 | SACEUR , General Lauris Norstadt , argued for and won some delay in Sandys ' programme and a modest increase in the proposed strength of BAOR . |
| 10 | He moved towards and took hold of her gently by the shoulders , forcing her to turn and look at him . |
| 11 | Where a person claims possession of land he alleges is occupied solely by a person or persons ( not a tenant or tenants holding over ) who entered into or remained in occupation without his licence or consent or that of any predecessor in title of his , the proceedings may be brought by originating application under Ord 24 . |
| 12 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 13 | The widow claimed to be particular about who she let to and told her a great deal about the other lodgers ; a musician and a German student , both women , and one man , a writer . |
| 14 | Subjects are taken back to childhood by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged , which leaves them feeling helpless and vulnerable . |
| 15 | Conducted professionally , regression therapy does not involve subjects being taken back to childhood ‘ by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged … ’ |
| 16 | Machinery does exist for selected authorities to appeal to the Secretary of State , and in 1986/7 several rate-capped councils appealed for and obtained redetermined spending levels . |
| 17 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 18 | And he seemed as if had been here when I was down the road |
| 19 | At the time he prepared for and received Eucharist , he was the oldest of 32 residents of a home for severely handicapped children under Catholic auspices . |
| 20 | I played for and captained my country so I know how important it is and I would never stop anybody going . |
| 21 | ‘ But it was really hard to deal with sometimes , especially when I got the thumbs down on something I really believed in and did n't want to change . |
| 22 | She jerked her head round quickly towards where the Men usually came from and stared fixedly . |
| 23 | The interview with Jason , he tells the jury , had been ‘ twisted , distorted , added to and invented ; and it attributed cowardice at the very moment the Gulf War was about to break out ’ . |
| 24 | Parliamentary proceedings , second thoughts about the drafting , and the addition of makeweight provisions , added to and varied the original core as the Bill progressed . |
| 25 | The Minster at Mittelzell is the chief church , built first just after 800 but added to and altered a number of times since ( 257 ) . |
| 26 | So the authors wrote the Workbook , and added to and updated the Student 's Book wherever there was space . |
| 27 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 28 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 29 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 30 | They simply made a raid on the first restaurant they came to and gave the proprietor fits . |