Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope not , ’ Sophie said involuntarily , then flushed as she met the others ' surprised looks . |
| 2 | They oversaw the reeves of the forest parishes , who branded the commoners ' cattle , the number depending on the size of the commoners ' holdings . |
| 3 | Mhoira Robertson was always ambitious and passed the sergeants ' examination at 24 . |
| 4 | Bomberg shared the Vorticists ' involvement with the machine-age dynamism of modern urban life . |
| 5 | Dobbie shared the islanders ' hardships and broadcast to and visited the people constantly . |
| 6 | Bloodied and shattered by the war , for 20 years the public shared the architects ' vision of a brave new world of pristine concrete , of high airy towers set in acres of green park-land . |
| 7 | Although the State shared the townsmen 's interest in broadening the urban tax base , the political influence of the Church and landowners delayed any decisive legislation . |
| 8 | He mistook the scouts ' military-style uniform for Hitler Youth regalia and started shouting abuse at them . |
| 9 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 10 | The Gulf crisis complicated the budgetary position in that it made the negotiators ' original $50,000 million deficit reduction target appear unrealistically high , while increasing the threat of the economy being pushed into recession . |
| 11 | Isabel stumbled out of the dark cell into a scene that made the priests ' descriptions of hell seem tame . |
| 12 | It made the models ' sacrifice of their modesty seem poignantly vain . |
| 13 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 14 | So there was another sort of factor of passing down your wealth that made the women 's chastity so important . |
| 15 | When bringing Section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 into force on the Lord Chancellor also made the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practices Order . |
| 16 | Ken Viljoen , then 21 , made the Springboks ' only hundred in the Tests , and it is from his diary that the authors have recreated the events of 1931–32 , on and off the field . |
| 17 | A piteous cry revealed the occupants ' identity . |
| 18 | They introduce the ‘ Son of man ’ , and the relationships between Christianity and other religions whose heaps of broken images strew the anthropologists ' pages and the sites of the world 's past cultures . |
| 19 | The acquirer 's solicitor should reserve the right to incorporate additional warranties when he has received all the information about the target , read the accountants ' report and read the draft disclosure letter . |
| 20 | For the most part it concerned the speakers ' contemporary experience . |
| 21 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 22 | In 1971 Jack Webb became the Bondholders ' Secretary , followed by Harold Chambers in 1975 up to 1981 , from which date to their winding up Basil Peacock held the reins . |
| 23 | Very young children of four or five were put to work making matchboxes ; Lady Dilke , leader of the Women 's Protective and Provident League ( which became the Women 's Trade Union League in 1889 ) reported hearing a mother in Shoreditch saying ‘ Of course we cheat the School Board … |
| 24 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 25 | It became the Parents ' National Education Union in 1892 as branches developed in several cities . |
| 26 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 27 | The civilian became the soldiers ' main target . |
| 28 | After North became the contras ' overseer , in October 1984 , he tried , according to Rafael Quintero , to inculcate some honesty into them : taking Calero 's brother Mario off the contract for ponchos and boots ( the ponchos leaked , anyway ) and putting control of the contras ' foreign money in the hands of Secord and ‘ the company ’ . |
| 29 | He became the contras ' military chief in the mid-1980s , but was ousted from the leadership in February 1990 [ see p. 37236 ] by a number of his fellow commanders who considered his background too tainted by human rights abuses and association with the corruption of the Somoza years for him to negotiate the eventual disbanding and resettlement of the contras [ for which see p. 37450 ] |
| 30 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |