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Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1	Instead , he left behind a potent series of myths — the rock ‘ n ’ roll rebel , the sensitive poet , the sexual athlete , the Lizard King — and a body of work that would influence musicians who had n't even been born when their hero was buried and his gravestone gained its first layer of graffiti in Pére Lachaise cemetery .
2	The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have .
3	The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli .
4	It was a particular , exact colour ; Musgrave had seen it only once before , in a special department of the Bank of England where they incinerated notes which had been taken out of circulation .
5	Prior to the tax year which began on Monday , building societies only had to report accounts which paid more than £1,400 with the threshold for National Savings being £250 on investment accounts and £500 on its ordinary account .
6	Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation .
7	Her thesis was that cultural and physical diversity was important in the life of a city , and she charged planners with pursuing policies which had the effect of eradicating it .
8	Stain DNAs which did not cut with Hae III were subjected to Hind III digestion .
9	They 've got stacks of Christmas they got walkies they got everything .
10	Baldwin tabled proposals which involved payments of £34 million a year .
11	Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child .
12	Y'know so she did n't necessarily have a strong sense of y'know coping and surviving and er using strategies which helped her get through it .
13	The President began the meeting as usual , with a review of the scientific advances of the previous year , naming experts who had helped him in making his list .
14	Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor .
15	By using cords I managed to create a curvilinear band which is unusual in the sense that no two bands would ever be the same .
16	We did , however , manage to carry out a certain amount of court observation and also to interview solicitors who dealt with some of the cases .
17	He made contacts which brought him in touch with Jack Kent Cook who ran Saturday Night Magazine .
18	The committee found that most of the complaints were justified and recommended improvements which resulted in the conditions of service and promotion prospects of the staff being brought into line with the rest of the Civil Service .
19	A selection of commonly used naming words which incorporated consonants in the appropriate contexts was tried out with 130 normal children and 57 children of average or above-average intelligence who had already been identified as having retarded phonology .
20	That is apart from the colossal cost of fitting cars with the number plates and finding out which cars needed to be fitted , catching drivers who had removed the plates , sending out bills , dealing with drivers who said they had not driven their cars on the date in question , and many another items .
21	When I was working in London , we often got clients who blamed us if their pets died .
22	She gave her books to look at and explained how the printed letters beneath each picture made words which summarized the illustration .
23	The stewards sent a shock wave through leading teams by admitting that the F1 Technical Delegate had found every team except Lola were using cars which conflicted with the technical regulations particularly in relation to active suspension and traction control .
24	Amongst readers of the same paper ( or paper-group as defined in Table 8.17 ) those who said they relied more on the press than on television were more likely to swing in the direction of their paper 's partisanship : Sun/Star and Express/ Mail readers who relied more on their papers swung more strongly to the Conservatives than Sun/Star and Express/Mail readers who relied more on television ; at the same time , Mirror readers who relied more on their paper swung towards Labour , while Mirror readers who relied more on television swung towards the Conservatives .
25	‘ I can manage , ’ she said firmly , shaking her head in an effort to banish images which frightened her , but enthralled her as well .
26	He was also accused of using words which twisted meanings , such as ‘ congregation ’ instead of church , and ‘ senior ’ or ‘ elder ‘ instead of ‘ priest ’ .
27	By using words which originated in the context of their own society they imply that the institutions of that society have some kind of privileged universality .
28	In mitigation Lawrence Hazell said the defendant had acted stupidly in accepting invitations to drive cars he knew were stolen .
29	It was all very well nailing cracksmen who had nicked half-a-dozen fur coats from a warehouse ; but the real criminals in the City were amongst the money-men .
30	We got trips we got make-up , how to look after your face , got a healthy diet , you got this i , there 's a help line and it 's if you want that .