Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 2 | But bitterly I regret that I needed another man 's hands to help me , and he in ignorance . ’ |
| 3 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 4 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 5 | Do hearing people have a significant role in raising the level of deaf people 's lives to help them fit into society better ? |
| 6 | The allied warship fired off warning shots across the Korean ship 's bows to make it stop , but it was cleared to continue it 's voyage . |
| 7 | He even gave North precious travellers ' cheques to ransom them , although the ransom did not work out . |
| 8 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 9 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |