Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is normal for me to report to the Council 's Planning Committee the end of year disease statistics and any recommendations which might be necessary in line with the management strategy . |
| 2 | A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg ! |
| 3 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 4 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |
| 5 | Note has been taken of these and some of them appear in the panel 's revision . |
| 6 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing . |
| 8 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 9 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 10 | And I asked for the Kommandant 's help to have him released . |
| 11 | I made for the hotel 's main building with several other reporters when a man with an assault rifle appeared and said : ‘ Hit the floor . ’ |
| 12 | I bring to the Minister 's attention the correspondence between West Lothian district council and the hon. Member for Edinburgh , West ( Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ) , the Under-Secretary of State , on precisely the difficulties that a council , whether district or regional , has on the whole issue of competitive tendering . |
| 13 | I sit near the fjord 's edge and wonder whether to continue south towards Latrabjarg or whether to return north towards Drangajökull . |
| 14 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
| 15 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |
| 16 | I got into the driver 's seat and started the car . |
| 17 | Then I moved into the driver 's seat and we drove on . |
| 18 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 19 | Er but , Collieries as they became , they did n't acc That was Lancaster , they did n't accept er the old unions , so they erm they belonged Both I ca n't on Friday night I used to the Methodist 's chapel to pay the old union subscription , and to the West to pay 's . |
| 20 | I referred to the Government 's record on job creation . |
| 21 | I am just a poor girl ; what do I know of the sea-king 's palace ? |
| 22 | I stopped at a stationer 's and ordered two reams of Devon Valley Thin , two black ribbons to fit Toby 's portable , and a box of the best carbon papers . |
| 23 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 24 | But instead of going there , I sneaked into the Trunchbull 's room . |
| 25 | My ear was caught by the sweet sounds of love-making : delicious ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ , interspersed with the grunts and deep groans of a voice I recognised as the king 's . |
| 26 | Never did I speak for the truth 's sake but for my own … ‘ |
| 27 | I came across the garden 's central pavilion quite by chance , stumbling on it as I followed a dried water-course . |
| 28 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 29 | I remember I looked at the pile of Billy 's goods and chattels which were supposed to fit inside a twelve-by-six-foot room and saying : ‘ I came with a Sainsbury 's carrier — and I had trouble filling that . ’ |
| 30 | This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses . |