Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 2 | He not only designed and tested his own planes but , for a time , held most of the air speed records as well as the land speed record . |
| 3 | He describes the case of Mutang'ang'i one of the leading informals who at that time made foreguards for bicycles , bicycle stands and cutting machines using a series of hand-built metalworking machines which he had designed and built himself . |
| 4 | Marsh went away and was not silly for he came back with a micro-testing machine which worked , which he had designed and built himself . |
| 5 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 6 | But he had designed and built it for himself . |
| 7 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 8 | Here they wrote up their interviews and observations , edited them , created artwork and designed and printed their pages . |
| 9 | we 've finally won and got what we wanted . |
| 10 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 11 | Anthony was dead … her brother Anthony who had alternately teased and comforted her was lying somewhere dead , never to come home again . |
| 12 | One factoring company , Union Discount Commercial Finance ( UDCF ) , reorganised and relaunched its activities last year after running into problems with some of its clients . |
| 13 | This was reorganised and changed its title in the following year , and again in May 1918 : like its British counterparts it drew its manpower from a variety of sources — the universities , the army and the professions — as well as from diplomacy . |
| 14 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 15 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 16 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 17 | His dark good looks had about them something raffish , sinister almost , which at once attracted and frightened her . |
| 18 | In creating an atmosphere in which delegation is expected and welcomed you need to show that you will accept the mistakes that others make on your behalf . |
| 19 | Beside the total rewards such men expected and obtained they are minute . |
| 20 | In the name of multiprocessing on the desktop , the company 's new buzzword , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp last week went ahead as expected and unveiled its latest Sparcstation 10s ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 21 | We can guess that , despite a natural growth process , we all experienced a series of early betrayals as our mother expected and encouraged us to grow up and slowly emphasized her separateness and difference . |
| 22 | The chapters that follow seek to outline the ways in which I have pursued and developed my own management skills , and the lessons that I have learnt on the way . |
| 23 | All of these factors weaken the ties that such businesses have with the communities in which they are located and make it less difficult for them to close down and/or relocate if and when business conditions deteriorate in one country relative to other countries . |
| 24 | ‘ In particular , over and above their local roles , councils are located and locate themselves in what may be termed the ‘ national local government system ’ ' ( Dunleavy , 1980a , p. 105 ) . |
| 25 | The diaphragm is usually made in such a way that the hole size can be varied and decreasing its size is called ‘ stopping down ’ . |
| 26 | President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard announced on Oct. 28 that he had suspended all moves to reform , purge and reduce the size of the army , as set out in the UN peace accord of January 1992 [ see p. 38716 ] , until the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas had completely disarmed and demobilized their forces . |
| 27 | The Quintín Lame Movement , an indigenous guerrilla movement founded in 1984 and a member of the CNGSB , formally disarmed and demobilized its estimated 130 members on May 31 . |
| 28 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that unless you take the opportunity to see the system installed and working you 'll be missing the chance of increasing your knowledge of the product and thereby depriving yourself of valuable information . |
| 29 | complete the application form ( and in some cases , ask your husband or wife to sign the consent form included and return it to you ) |
| 30 | Holly lifted the steel bowl to his mouth , tipped and tilted it , swallowed and felt the lukewarm drip in his throat and then the rising sickness , and he clamped his mouth shut , and swallowed again . |