Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could imagine his tolerant lawyer 's smile as he demolished her fears and speculations . |
| 2 | Well do you want that Littlewood 's shirt that I 've got , still says that we 're going , I get up on Sunday and go to and , no we 've got to go to with that coat , take that coat over |
| 3 | Keegan , though , declined to look beyond this afternoon 's match when he left St James 's Park with his 14-man squad yesterday . |
| 4 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 5 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 6 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |
| 7 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 8 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 9 | DROMORE High lifted their third successive High Schools ' Cup when they defeated perennial opponents Limavady High in yesterday 's final shoot-out at Ravenhill . |
| 10 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |
| 11 | Sandy means an awful lot in that old lady 's life and she does occasionally reach the point when she 's got so little money left that believe it or not she has to choose between buying food for herself and buying dog food for Sandy . |
| 12 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 13 | To say that the terminology at B.P. was cryptic resembles the old lady 's comment that she is suffering from a ‘ gastric stomach ’ ; but there was an esoteric language to be learned . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose her memory 's a bit faulty , ’ Irene commented on the old lady 's assertion that she 'd never seen Elaine . |
| 15 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
| 16 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 17 | I mean , I ended up staying a month at some bloke 's house after I went in for a pack of strings ! |
| 18 | ‘ That was the first High Queen 's instruction when it was being raised from the rock . |
| 19 | ‘ After all , ’ Tealtaoich had said silkily , ‘ you may be a bastard , my friend , but you are a High Queen 's bastard and you were sired by a Wolf . |
| 20 | The foster-mother said , ‘ you light Granny 's fire before you come . ’ |
| 21 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 22 | This does not mean that all pensioners live in poverty , but the effect of age discrimination is to depress the whole of this group 's income and it is only those with access to higher incomes through , for example , substantial occupational pensions , who are able to cushion themselves against the economic consequences . |
| 23 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 24 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 25 | Although both sides became frustrated , it says much for the social workers ' determination that they turned up to meetings and attempted to understand me . |
| 26 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 27 | I am delighted to respond to my hon. Friend 's invitation and I entirely agree with his remarks . |
| 28 | I entirely share my right hon. Friend 's view that we are concerned about improving health care and benefits to patients , which I believe trust status at South Ayrshire will achieve . |
| 29 | I know my hon. Friend 's view and I believe that he had an Adjournment debate on the subject last week . |
| 30 | I accept my hon. Friend 's point that it is important that there should be the maximum leaving of powers to the nation states , the Member States of the Community . |