Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swings were highest amongst voters who watched both BBC and ITV news , and amongst those who avoided watching highbrow television news programmes , but the differences between these groups of television viewers were slight . |
| 2 | THREE Chinese restaurant owners who admitted passing bogus credit card bills worth nearly half a million pounds through their books , walked free from court yesterday after a jury failed to reach a verdict . |
| 3 | A SOCCER club boss who admitted displaying illegal advertising signs at his ground must pay a £150 penalty . |
| 4 | Appearing with her before Wirral magistrates was Craig Blackwell , 23 , of the same address , who admitted allowing fraudulent use of the licence . |
| 5 | Colling , who admitted causing criminal damage , common assault , unlawful wounding , and three charges of obtaining property by deception , was sentenced to eight months imprisonment , to run consecutively with an 18 month sentence he received at Durham Crown Court in February after being convicted of other deception charges . |
| 6 | A 36-year-old married teacher , who admitted having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old pupil on a sailing trip , was found guilty of raping the girl after a three-day trial . |
| 7 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 8 | The Bezdna affair evoked an indignant response from Afanasii Shchapov , a graduate of Kazan " Ecclesiastical Academy who began teaching Russian history at Kazan " University in November 1860 . |
| 9 | Significantly , Melrose and Jed-Forest , border rivals who began developing local youth talent years ago , are today among four unbeaten teams setting the title pace . |
| 10 | Eventually , in the middle of the afternoon , Golding arrived with his superior , Detective Superintendent Miller , and a squad of technicians , who began making intricate modifications to the telephone in order to monitor incoming calls . |
| 11 | It was you who started making veiled references to my love-life . |
| 12 | I was the awkward one who kept asking difficult questions , such as , Why is n't Leo in the Forces ? and What war work do Helen and Dora do ? |
| 13 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | Police have been continuing the search for the body of a woman who went missing twenty years ago . |
| 15 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 16 | Karl Marx was not the only economist who died holding this belief . |
| 17 | Knowing Tolkien to have his difficulties , maritally speaking , the two Lewis brothers stayed away ; and Lewis , who disliked sharing spoken intimacies with friends , never allowed the conversation to develop if Tolkien tried to speak of his troubles . |