Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europeans had heard travellers ' tales of how natives of different parts of China could not understand each other 's speech , but could communicate by writing . |
| 2 | When it did , Aung San and his friends were outspoken and firm , and Communist popularity waned , even in the country districts where they had organised cultivators ' unions , advocated the non-payment of taxes and rent , and promised the confiscation of land and its division among the landless and debt-ridden peasants . |
| 3 | In addition , two female science students who had attended girls ' grammar schools felt that they had been disadvantaged : |
| 4 | Someone 's hand had torn away three quarters of the days of the desktop calendar and filled a wastebasket with them , and someone had written girls ' names and telephone numbers on the blotters . |
| 5 | Last year , Trading Standards officers in Oxfordshire investigated complaints that SFV had with-held clients ' damage deposits . |
| 6 | This was thought by trade unionists to be inconsistent with the leading decision of ten years before which had protected employers ' associations from conspiracy on the ground that the acts had been done ‘ with the lawful object of protecting and extending their trade and increasing their profits ’ without employing unlawful means , although the consequence had been to injure their competitors . |
| 7 | These had conferred squatters ' rights over municipal land and property rights on tens of thousands of small farmers ; thousands of land expropriations had been made under the Sandinista government 's agrarian reforms but not formally legalized . |
| 8 | Recent national reforms had undermined teachers ' morale , he said . |
| 9 | On Sept. 25 , 1989 , some 12,000 primary school teachers called off a three-week strike over demands for pay increases and dissatisfaction with job evaluation ; the government had withheld strikers ' salaries and threatened to dismiss those continuing industrial action . |
| 10 | Russ had also written a number of uncovered personal cheques himself , despite not having an account at the bank , and had ignored auditors ' advice to stop abusing his position at the bank . |
| 11 | Alas , on boarding the Docklands Light Railway the party was confronted by an inspector only to find that they had purchased childrens ' tickets by mistake . |
| 12 | Goldsmith rumours were helped along by talk Anheuser-Busch , the US brewing giant , had acquired Elders ' 23.7 per cent stake ahead of a bid . |