Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had thereby perpetuated the peasants ' servile dependence on the nobles . |
| 2 | But most of it had already escaped the princes ' grasp in the tenth century ; in the course of the eleventh , it passed squarely into the hands of local castellans , who exacted fines and imposed penalties on their peasants with remorseless vigour . |
| 3 | These areas retained the nineteenth-century characteristics which had already focused the reformers ' minds : they were tight-knit , high-density , congested , smoky , dirty and they presented a scene of old and obsolete buildings . |
| 4 | We were at a track well away from the hotel that the Italians had euphemistically dubbed the Athletes ' Village , and well away from the training track that was adjacent to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 5 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 6 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 7 | The teacher had faithfully reflected the kids ' culture . |