Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [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 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 .
3 You ca n't expect her to get them in on a student 's grant . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 . ’
7 " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? "
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 Then he hauled himself up over the Zodiac 's port tube and rolled on to the floor slats .
12 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 .
13 ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed .
14 ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 You must ask the mermaids to turn the wheel , and whirl you down to the sea-king 's halls .
18 Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow .
19 It is not , however , a case of the infant building itself up at the mother 's expense .
20 The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance .
21 We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall .
22 Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave .
23 We 're one up on the men 's team .
24 If you 're fishing an 18 on the river and missing bites do n't swop to one smaller ; you 'll only end up pulling that one out of the fishes ' mouths too .
25 ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris .
26 Whatever I did , he 'd always put me back on the subs ' bench .
27 The conductor would send me round to the front with my fishing box , the driver would send me back to the conductor 's end and so it went on .
28 One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ .
29 ‘ The latest idea is to actually take them out to the hairdresser 's or shopping , so that happens every month without fail , sometimes more often .
30 Nevil choked me until I almost passed out , then he lifted me out of the driver 's seat and bundled me into the back of Armstrong , hitting me on the back of the neck with what could have been an anvil but was probably his fist .
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