Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 2 | On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered . |
| 3 | Swings were highest amongst voters who watched both BBC and ITV news , and amongst those who avoided watching highbrow television news programmes , but the differences between these groups of television viewers were slight . |
| 4 | Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr . |
| 5 | Charles Scott , 25 , of Findlay Gardens , Edinburgh , who admitted acting with Edmiston in one of the break-ins , was jailed for 15 months . |
| 6 | THREE Chinese restaurant owners who admitted passing bogus credit card bills worth nearly half a million pounds through their books , walked free from court yesterday after a jury failed to reach a verdict . |
| 7 | A POSTMAN who admitted stealing parcels and a credit card from the mail was conditionally discharged by Darlington magistrates yesterday . |
| 8 | A SOCCER club boss who admitted displaying illegal advertising signs at his ground must pay a £150 penalty . |
| 9 | There , the conduct of those who admitted using inside information was described as ‘ immoral ’ , ‘ unscrupulous ’ , ‘ unfair ’ , and a ‘ betrayal of fiduciary duties ’ . |
| 10 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 11 | We spoke to one miner who admitted tampering with samplers in another pit to Whitemoor . |
| 12 | Appearing with her before Wirral magistrates was Craig Blackwell , 23 , of the same address , who admitted allowing fraudulent use of the licence . |
| 13 | Muller , 21 , of Millbuie Farm , Skene , Aberdeenshire , who admitted contravening the 1809 Concealment of Birth ( Scotland ) Act , was placed on probation for a year . |
| 14 | Makka , who admitted causing Susan grievous bodily harm , was jailed for five years . |
| 15 | Dawtrey , 18 , of Boundary Brook Road , Oxford , who admitted causing death by reckless driving and five offences of taking vehicles without consent , was also banned from driving for four years . |
| 16 | Colling , who admitted causing criminal damage , common assault , unlawful wounding , and three charges of obtaining property by deception , was sentenced to eight months imprisonment , to run consecutively with an 18 month sentence he received at Durham Crown Court in February after being convicted of other deception charges . |
| 17 | Even where there was not direct evidence of a breach of trust , the occupation would suggest to the newspaper reader that this is a crime of the middle class , such as ‘ a civil servant who admitted inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency … . ’ |
| 18 | A 36-year-old married teacher , who admitted having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old pupil on a sailing trip , was found guilty of raping the girl after a three-day trial . |
| 19 | Mondello , who had been acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges but who admitted having incited a 30-strong mob to attack Hawkins , received 5@1/3 to 16 years in the form of four consecutive sentences for riot and other felony charges . |
| 20 | Scott 's estranged wife , Yvonne ( 25 ) , who admitted attacking the RUC constables , avoided prison because she is five months pregnant with McKinney 's child . |
| 21 | She said the man , who admitted attempting to have sex with her when she was eight , should have gone to prison for two or three years . |
| 22 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 23 | Gordon Orchard , a 61-year-old former Coldstream guardsman , who admitted abducting the child last summer , had 50 previous convictions , including indecent assault and attempted rape , but was sentenced as if they did not exist . |
| 24 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 25 | AN unemployed fish cook from Liss Forest who admitted possessing cannabis and heroin five days before Christmas told police it was his own personal stash for the holiday period . |
| 26 | I wish to thank Andrew and Margaret Hewson , my literary agents , for their unfailing support and their honest and constructive criticisms throughout the writing of this sequence ; and also Sylvia Kantaris , who read Lying Together while it was in progress and offered excellent suggestions . |
| 27 | Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself . |
| 28 | The Oxford Study reveals that of 169 people who reported receiving damages as a consequence of an accident suffered , only four received them as a result of a court order . |
| 29 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 30 | Table 6.2 shows the proportion of the sample of men in each social class who reported helping their wives in various tasks once a week . |