Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that mothers averted their gaze more than their babies did , especially as the experimenter moved closer . |
| 2 | Others found that workmates pressured them to challenge management . |
| 3 | However , James Valentine of the University of California suggests worms may have evolved from arthropods ( jointed-legged creatures ) rather than the other way around , because they had cavities in their middle layer ( known as coeloms ) which they used as skeletons to support themselves when burrowing . |
| 4 | The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls ' magazines . |
| 5 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 6 | Carkesse believed that madmen vent their rage by words on air , poets by ink on paper . |
| 7 | One sign of the times : the film ‘ Bonfire of the Vanities ’ flopped after critics accused it of being kinder to yuppies than the original Tom Wolfe novel . |
| 8 | The happiest results came when householders gave their evacuees time to settle in and made some attempt to understand their cultural differences . |
| 9 | He also observed that Americans wiped their noses on their sleeves , employed spittoons and had poor aim . |
| 10 | For the first time for a century woman discovered that men wanted something more human from them than a nun-like chastity , a bien pensant idealism . |
| 11 | During interviews he denied all knowledge of how the fire started but investigators said he must have been awarethat Bailey had confessed to his wife . |
| 12 | Only the family 's dog survived as flames engulfed their home in Merthyr Tydfil , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 13 | In 1990 sales of cars , video cameras and leisure related services boomed as consumers found themselves with higher disposable incomes because of wage increases averaging 6 per cent , at least double the rate of inflation . |
| 14 | Some treat Jesus as the greatest medium who ever lived while others accept him as ‘ the psychic Son of God ’ . |
| 15 | Slavery meant that whites maintained their domination over blacks and so kept a rigidly structured inequality . |
| 16 | First , the synchronized nature of the 1970–1 recession meant that governments found themselves simultaneously at a similar , recessionary phase of the cycle . |
| 17 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 18 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 19 | And the Japanese , on the basis of the visitors ' socks , thought that Europeans had none . |
| 20 | A number of what felt like teeth bit his ankle . |
| 21 | She died my grandfather died and blacks got it just sold up ! |
| 22 | Last night a post-mortem examination was being carried out to discover how the man died but police said they were treating the death as highly suspicious . |
| 23 | Some people are genuinely mistaken as to what they saw while others embellish their accounts with things their friends have told them since . |
| 24 | Martin Peak and Karen Brielly died when soldiers mistook them for terrorists when they roared through a roadblock . |
| 25 | This could lead to suspicion : two people complained that colleagues thought they might ‘ over-identify ’ and therefore lack objectivity . |
| 26 | Di — who smiled when wellwishers gave her flowers — said people took more notice if someone well-known was involved . |
| 27 | NEWRY TOWN reeled as Crusaders piled everything into their grim title challenge at grey , wet Seaview . |
| 28 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 29 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 30 | They were Asian ones — I could tell that from the label , but he said that Asians had one more ( or was it one less ? ) toe than the Indian ones and different ears . |