Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates found them guilty of criminal damage , but the protesters maintain that their actions in trying to stop a war machine were justified . |
| 2 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 3 | The sequel , in which the young bloods of Derby and Oaks night received their rebuff , was that they were distracted from their other responsibilities by a four-day jury hearing which found them guilty of riotous proceedings , but not of riotous intent . |
| 4 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 5 | No one believed him guilty of financial dishonesty but the governor , John Elphinstone ( thirteenth Baron Elphinstone , q.v. ) , demanded restitution of the money . |
| 6 | He had worked so long on it and filled it full of malicious remarks at Gina 's expense . |
| 7 | AS DAY DAWNED in the remote jungle of the Venezuelan Amazonas the traveller reached for his sodden clothes and rotting boots , shook them free of invading ants and poisonous hairy caterpillars , and crawled from his smelly , fungus-covered mosquito net . |
| 8 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 9 | So yesterday 's record-beating export figure only covered trade with the world outside the EC and few analysts thought it worthy of much analysis . |
| 10 | I Dreamed more bullets into the gun , and shot him full of more lead . |
| 11 | It was having the camera there that made us aware of those questions . |