Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb pp] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 3 | However , after the case was over I confess to having cheated and done what the voices of infallibility , myself among them , have said must not be done in construing legislation : I looked at Hansard . |
| 4 | I wished we might have stopped and offered her a lift . |
| 5 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 6 | And when she had woken and eaten everything the femme de menage had left for lunch plus some extra eggs and some ham , she was no longer certain what had taken place the night before . |
| 7 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 8 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |