Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 2 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 3 | A successful private deal also means that creditors and shareholders have reached a voluntary consensus , which binds them in to the firm 's future health . |
| 4 | You ca n't expect her to get them in on a student 's grant . ’ |
| 5 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 6 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 7 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 8 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 9 | Just as missiles can be guided from aircraft that did not launch them , so jamming can be done by someone else on the bomber 's behalf ; division of labour pays off in battles , too . |
| 10 | Once we arrived at the house she asked us whether we would go and pick up someone else from the doctor 's surgery who she worked with . |
| 11 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 12 | Video is a good medium with which to move them away from the beginner 's preoccupation with individual words to an attempt to follow the general drift of a message . |
| 13 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 14 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 15 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 16 | Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot , he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine 's cabin . |
| 17 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 18 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's admitted passing himself off as the Prince 's chef , and when his dastardly plan to assassinate His Royal Highness by poison did n't work , he kidnapped him . |
| 20 | Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac 's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats . |
| 21 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 22 | The former was alleged by the press to have enriched himself substantially during the PSOE 's term of office by using the influence of his brother to buy property and obtain loans , and to have run a private business from a government office in Seville . |
| 23 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 24 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 26 | ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice . |
| 27 | The mite then seizes the chance to lever itself on to the ant 's head , where it hangs on , upside down , with its hind legs . |
| 28 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 29 | You must ask the mermaids to turn the wheel , and whirl you down to the sea-king 's halls . |
| 30 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |