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bent the rules
verb
Past of bend the rules
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"I thought she bent the rules.
But Dr. Barbiers said it often bent the rules.
This was a school where we bent the rules.
"The agent simply bent the rules for me," she said.
If Sky has bent the rules, one senses other teams must have too.
Putnam: I bent the rules last time we did this and I'll do again here.
OK, so I've slightly bent the rules because this speech was made to the TUC conference.
By Alex Ross Gesualdo bent the rules of harmony in extreme ways.
I think more likely they bent the rules to prove what they knew to be true.
In some high-profile cases, immigration officials have bent the rules.
Wood bent the rules for Myhrvold; the Hertz was supposed to be for research in real-world problems.
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