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

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1	Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them much money , saying , give this authority to me as well , so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit .
2	Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit .
3	Walpole later described him as ‘ an able geometrician and an exquisite architect , and of the purest taste both in the Grecian and Gothic styles … my oracle in taste , the standard to whom I submitted my trifles , the genius that presided over poor Strawberry ’ ; and from c .1753 onwards he designed much of the exterior , as well as a number of the interiors .
4	By adopting various graphological forms I hoped to fool the editors to whom I submitted my poems with a covering note , often under a false name .
5	Well that 's how I I played my shunters .
6	This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news .
7	After a witnessing session in which everyone opened their hearts and emerged exalted we walked out into the night and began to neck .
8	However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise .
9	Section one says , now for this everybody we 're thinking about the survey you did in the form room , from which you did your graphs , saying to people do you believe in god , have you visited a place of worship , is everyone clear about the piece of work we 're thinking about , speak to me .
10	She settled everybody round the fire , took them hot drinks , and then set to work on her sweet-hearted retriever with a comb , during which she got her guests into perspective .
11	Twenty minutes later , carrying a carefully packaged beautiful glass vase which she knew her parents — well , her mother in particular — were just going to love , Fabia came down the stairs again and , stepping out into the colonnade , bumped right into none other than Lubor Ondrus .
12	Flavia saw Andrée glance at the square of oil-cloth off which she ate her meals .
13	This little ritual lasted about two minutes after which she raised her eyes and calmly told me that my money signified ‘ death ’ .
14	But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate .
15	There was no trace of the foreign in her speech , except perhaps in the greater clarity with which she enunciated her sentences .
16	When in April 1949 Mary Trevelyan had written a letter in which she explained her feelings for him , and in fact suggested marriage , he explained in his reply that although he valued her friendship he was no longer capable of reciprocating such feelings for anyone .
17	‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs .
18	I assumed that somewhere in our contracts there was a clause in which we relinquished our rights to our own nationalities .
19	Scientists used their own society as the model from which they formulated their ideas , which in turn justified the position of women as they found it .
20	Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them .
21	Yet savers will still profit from the bull market as beneficiaries of the pension funds to which they sold their shares .
22	Some of the Champagne houses which make a point of declaring they never use vins de taille in their own products have purchased ready-made Champagnes from the very houses to which they sold their vins de taille in the first place .
23	The soldiers of the artillery train had panicked and cut the traces of their horses , after which they overturned their guns and caissons to create barricades .
24	They were the only source of direct involvement for the rank and file as the channel through which they expressed their demands and discontent .
25	The recent letter of intent signed by AT&T and Novell in which they revealed their plans for AT&T to sell Unix System Laboratories ( the home of System V Unix ) is of enormous importance .
26	In April 1972 , in the Basle Agreement , the central banks of the Six , Britain , Denmark and Eire had formed a currency ‘ snake ’ , by which they valued their currencies within a certain percentage of the US dollar .
27	It was only the machinery by which they performed their duties which was different .
28	Another indication that our medieval forebears had very different standards from ours for recording the lapse of time is revealed by the way in which they dated their letters .
29	In particular , it stressed the need for them to adopt a more professional approach to and an involvement in economic management as against the policy advisory role on which they exercised their intellects [ Brittan , 1971 ] .
30	In 1954 he bought , with Lionel Barber , 75 per cent of Holder 's Investment Trust , to which he sold his interests between 1955 and 1961 for over £5 million .