Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb pp] [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 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | But he had designed and built it for himself . |
6 | we 've finally won and got what we wanted . |
7 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
8 | Anthony was dead … her brother Anthony who had alternately teased and comforted her was lying somewhere dead , never to come home again . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | We now have our own ducks and they have nested and hatched their eggs , and a male moorhen and his family have been in residence for a couple of years . |
14 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
15 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
16 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
17 | And the Colonel had grinned and encouraged it . |
18 | It was n't fit for a young girl , he 'd explained in his thick brogue , and her half-brother had grinned and mocked her behind his back . |
19 | The dish is tenderised and given its unique flavour by rubbing portions of duck with garlic , salt and black pepper . |
20 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
21 | The Chairman has responded and admitted his side of the wrong . |
22 | Dinah had always disliked and resented her , never forgetting the pain caused by her birth . |
23 | He would n't of come th wa on his Saturday before his birthday he would n't of come and seen me unless he thought he was getting something out of it . |
24 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
25 | If he had come and kissed me . |
26 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
27 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
28 | ‘ Basically we 've looked and said there 's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here , ’ Collis said , adding that Dell will be sticking to its own price timetable . |
29 | According to Muslim reports , the preachers used visual adds : " Among other things they made a picture showing the Messiah , and an Arab striking him , showing blood on the face of Christ — blessings on Him ! — and they said to the crowds : " This is the Messiah , struck by Mahomet the prophet of the Muslims , who has wounded and killed him . " " |
30 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |