Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 2 | While I do not want to detract from the bilinguals ' versatility or the value of their multicultural experience , I will argue in this chapter that in fact monolinguals have broadly the same range of linguistic " powers " as bilinguals have , though sometimes these are manifested in other ways . |
| 3 | And how did you know to go for the dolls ' bed ? ’ |
| 4 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 5 | THIEVES tried to break into a pensioners ' community centre just hours before a tombola to replace a stolen karaoke machine and cash . |
| 6 | Under the Institute 's standards , for example , training organisations are expected to pay for the students ' first examination attempt . |
| 7 | Phillips has played in only four of Neath 's nine Heineken League matches so far this season but has been picked ahead of Andrew Thomas , who reacted by refusing to sit on the replacements ' bench . |
| 8 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 9 | The scheme 's backers have offered to negotiate with the Greens ' over the route " metre by metre " . |
| 10 | By 1914 there were no more than 20,000 noble landowners fully enfranchised to vote in the landowners ' curias of the Duma and the zemstvos , as well as in the provincial assemblies of the nobility . |
| 11 | The first to come , and one of the most interesting from Pumfrey 's point of view , was Tom Tedder , who sprawled easily in his chair , seemed as little tensed up as it is possible to be when involved in a murder case , and told them all they needed to know about the teachers ' attitude to the school 's star pupil . |
| 12 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
| 13 | There are signs that the council of Lloyd 's is starting to listen to the names ' cries . |
| 14 | There was still over an hour to go before his rendezvous with Rose and he decided to walk around the jewellers ' shops to find something he could afford . |
| 15 | Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered . |
| 16 | Deane , anxious to end a wretched run that has brought him only one goal in 15 Premier League matches , failed to score in the reserves ' 1-0 win at Leicester . |
| 17 | A steady stream of steam-laden air gushed out from the kitchen and Carrie frequently ran the back of her hand across her hot forehead as she struggled to cope with the customers ' demands . |
| 18 | So even if it managed to escape from the scientists ' clutches in Britain , it could not turn into another exotic pest , like the mink in Britain or the rabbit in Australia . |
| 19 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 20 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 21 | In almost all cases , relatives were not officially informed of the executions and were forced to search for the victims ' bodies in mass graves . |
| 22 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 23 | Washington were left to sweat on the Packers ' result when Vince Evans ' three-yard touchdown pass to Tim Brown with 13 seconds left gave the Los Angeles Raiders a shock 21-20 victory . |
| 24 | Mrs Williams , 54 , is the former headmistress of St Paul 's Girls ' school in London who was forced to quit by a parents ' rebellion over an attempt to limit the number of GCSEs her girls sat . |
| 25 | A total of 3 per cent referred to independent green audits , but none commented on what measures , if any , had been taken to deal with the audits ' recommendations . |
| 26 | The Bank of England was granted leave to intervene in the plaintiffs ' action on 7 May 1991 . |
| 27 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 28 | It met the flight attendants ' union on Monday and is also hoping to talk to the pilots ' union . |
| 29 | T' little lass felled in t' river tryin' to cross by t' Brownies ' Bridge , an' I was busy a-dryin' of her . ’ |
| 30 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |