Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Going then to the Uc Serefeli mosque , Fahreddin Acemi had the people summoned , ascended the and " exposed [ the Hurufis ' ] vain beliefs , adjudged them guilty of unbelief and heresy , and gave judgment that the killing of them was incumbent and that such as aided in the slaying of them would be greatly rewarded " .
2 Masters degree theses were excluded because the smaller numbers made them unsuitable for analysis .
3 Neither were visible and the heavy spray made them undetectable by radar .
4 Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism .
5 However , certain types of women were ‘ selected out ’ by the redundancy process ; they tended to be disadvantaged in human capital terms , which made them vulnerable to poverty ( Callender , 1986b ) .
6 It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place .
7 Insanitary conditions , and the concentration of people and rats in a limited area , made them vulnerable to attacks of plague , and it is noteworthy that even when the disease had ceased to be common in the country , it persisted in urban areas .
8 This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape .
9 The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others .
10 For some feminists the ‘ problem ’ was the masculine culture of mixed schools , which made them problematic for girls ( Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) .
11 Oh she got me this from Ikea .
12 Er and then he got me he er he got me interested in politics and he got me going to this N C L C evening evening classes .
13 Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been .
14 PICTURE THAT MADE ME SICK AT Lord Spencer 's funeral , Diana reached for Lady Spencer 's arm .
15 It made me sick with anger . ’
16 That 's why I 'm allowed to swim in the secret pool — a reward because her mother made me responsible for Aleena whenever she 's on the Mantela . ’
17 It made me wary of Throgmorton — but it does n't make me a murderer nine years later . ’
18 The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby .
19 Finally he got them all into bed .
20 He got them all from Barry Cross but gave his three-person Cycle Project Team to David Campbell .
21 and I got them both out whole an all
22 Interviewers visited them weekly with catalogues of brands and prices .
23 Just over three years ago England defeated them 2-0 at Wembley , but Yugoslavia might have drawn or even won that game had they taken their chances .
24 Madge Garland , however , fell for it and , although scared , invited them both to lunch .
25 One explosion from Bull and some serious sniping by Lineker could do the trick , but Yugoslavia have only lost twice in 20 matches since England routed them 4-1 in Belgrade in the European Championship two years ago and that wound was deep .
26 He has measured noble gases trapped within the meteorites and found them similar in composition to the Martian atmosphere analysed by NASA 's Viking landers .
27 In October 1991 , she was asked to examine the three sisters and found them healthy in appearance and co-operative .
28 Static scribbled them all into incomprehensibility .
29 The Romans and Vikings used them first as routes into the country for conquest and later for trade .
30 Lightweight , medium-sized , with hardened steel blades , our testers pronounced them perfect for women gardeners .
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