Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He or she would decide whether cases should go on to a Children 's Hearing before the Children 's Panel , or whether to take no further action . |
| 32 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 33 | ( And never do this in court , not even in a magistrates ' court ! ) |
| 34 | There is no text that can be read , such as there is even in a children 's comic . |
| 35 | Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it . |
| 36 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 37 | The vehicle and its two occupants now stood silently in a children 's playground . |
| 38 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 39 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 40 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 41 | This means that instead of a Lions ' debut being guaranteed for the 10-times-capped Garryowen player against Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday week , he might miss the match . |