Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 2 | Moreover , you must have heard about or seen the horsemen hiding in the trees . |
| 3 | Next week I 'm a mining man and the week after I 'll have a wife , one already arranged for and waiting . |
| 4 | Despite political struggle , scientific advances and social battles , some things can not be changed , marched for or campaigned against . |
| 5 | Brian Everthorpe takes a chair at the far end of the table , slightly withdrawn as if to mark his difference from the engineers . |
| 6 | Mucous membranes swollen as if filled with water even . |
| 7 | Any unallocated payments are held in a suspense account , but once an appropriate charge is identified , the amount is treated as if allocated on the original date of the overpayment . |
| 8 | In America , and in his memories of a life still to be wished for although lost and gone for ever , that boy could be glimpsed in Eliot also . |
| 9 | Her chin was distinctly pointed , her mouth clenched as if withholding a cry , Vincent saw the pallor of her face , its sad lines , her eyes inward-looking , and felt that his soul was in correspondence with her . |
| 10 | He shall be substituted for and succeeded by his wife , the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza . |
| 11 | If you are going to eat in the kitchen make sure overall lights arc on a dimmer switch and that there is enough light over the table — use a rise-and-fall light fixture for example — which can , of course , be substituted for or combined with candlelight at night . |
| 12 | Ladjang 's brow wrinkled as if focusing on some minor anxiety that nothing could be done about anyway . |
| 13 | Their silks and skin dissolved as if gobbled by a cloud of ravenous moths . |
| 14 | Zeno 's head was lifted as if to search for scents on the air . |
| 15 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 16 | The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ . |
| 17 | Changes in the container as well as in the product should be looked for and reported . |
| 18 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 19 | Despite his many sales of things from Douglas Cooper 's collection , a substantial amount of art remained , much of it in Switzerland , where it was looked after and catalogued by Billy 's curator , Dorothy Kozinski . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've got to be carefully looked after and tested . |
| 21 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 22 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 23 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 24 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 25 | I am very concerned about women , their rights and how they are looked after and protected at work . |
| 26 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 27 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 28 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 29 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 30 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |