Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] ' [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Warburton , a teacher for the progressive Inner London Education Authority , refused to lie to his pupils and was sacked ; Louise Boychuk , sacked for wearing a ‘ Lesbians Ignite ’ badge at her work as an insurance clerk , found that the Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed with her employers ' right to sack her ; John Saunders , who had never wished to tell anyone at work that he was gay , found that the E.A.T . |
| 2 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 3 | She is a stiff bundle of rags , arching this way and that , legs clamped together against his knees ' efforts to prise them apart , arms straining him back up off her body . |
| 4 | Yet the most unnerving revelation of this book is less the bit that shocked Mr Teicher — his colleagues ' attempts to make him a scapegoat in the Irangate arms-for-hostages scandal — and more his portrayal of the muddle that characterises America 's dealings with this explosive region . |
| 5 | Nearly all of these are modern chemicals we have thoughtlessly introduced into our cats ' environment to help us in various ways . |
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