Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ceylon , stations ranged from those which served the elegant bungalow coastal suburbs of Colombo and those used by Europeans seeking refreshment at the hill stations or at Mount Lavinia to special ‘ coolie ’ stations , where the Tamil labour migrants introduced from South India to the tea plantations could be detrained and kept in quarantine until health requirements could be met . |
| 2 | LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope . |
| 3 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 4 | Once dug and left to dry , potatoes can be sorted and stored in teachests , thick paper sacks or shallow boxes covered with sacking to keep the light from turning them green . |
| 5 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 6 | Back home the data accumulated by Ivanov and his ‘ back up ’ man in the Czech delegation would be sorted and despatched for analysis . |
| 7 | Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack . |
| 8 | Boxes and pots in good condition can , of course , be sorted and arranged on shelves . |
| 9 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 10 | But your Service wants to get it all sorted and giftwrapped for them ? |
| 11 | Business letters and enquiries for the attention of the management or various departments should be date stamped , sorted and distributed to the appropriate departments immediately upon arrival . |
| 12 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 13 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 14 | This weekend , as he took the fight surrounded and supported by fluttering Union Jacks , it was clear that Lennox regards himself as ‘ one of ours ’ . |
| 15 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne as armed police surrounded and cordoned off the area . |
| 16 | I do n't recommend this as a tactic unless the rest of your cavalry is already engaged , or he could be surrounded and overwhelmed by a mass of lesser troops . |
| 17 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 18 | SONGUL KARABULUT and FIKRI KELES : Suspected members of Devrimci Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) , both were killed when police surrounded and fired on a flat in the Dikmen district of Ankara on 4 May 1992 . |
| 19 | This section of the Policy covers the Policyholder if they are TOTALLY DISABLED from engaging in or giving attention to THEIR PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION , as disclosed and declared on the policy , as a result of sickness . |
| 20 | This means that any secret profits made by them in dealing with the firm should be disclosed and accounted for . |
| 21 | The cash flows should be classified by operating , investing and financing activities , and the components of cash and cash equivalents should be disclosed and reconciled to the equivalent amounts in the balance sheet . |
| 22 | Many of these are not to our taste , but there 's no doubt that even those items that would look more at home in a flower arrangement have been designed and coloured with fishkeeping in mind . |
| 23 | Honda will enter November 's 1864-mile World Solar Challenge in Australia with the futuristic single-seat prototype , pictured above , designed and created by young technicians at Honda 's Tochigi R&D base in Japan . |
| 24 | The museum room was designed and created by Corporate Communications ‘ Archives Section . |
| 25 | The small device which enables Canned Draught Guinness to pour as if from a pub fount looks simple , but well over 100 techniques were designed and tested before the final development of the patented in-can system . |
| 26 | These teaching materials are techniques made manifest by the specific choice of language , designed and arranged as a series of tasks or exercises for immediate implementation . |
| 27 | PRODUCES A WIDE RANGE OF BOTH FUNCTIONAL AND DECORATIVE POTTERY ; INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNED AND FIRED TO STONEWARE TEMPERATURE . |
| 28 | As Boxes 1 and 2 make clear , there is a great deal that needs to be done if a residential area is to be designed and operated as a safe and habitable district . |
| 29 | They were designed and operated by AEA and are still in use today . |
| 30 | In that first year posters were designed and painted by members of the publicity sub-group and sponsorship was nonexistent . |