Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
2 | The Quebec government ordered the Army to dismantle the barricades on Aug. 27 , having refused to accede to the Mohawks ' additional demands that they be treated as a sovereign nation during negotiations and be granted immunity from prosecution . |
3 | He felt that something was waiting out there , that to venture beyond the lights ' pale embrace for whatever reason — necessity , whim or duty — was to take one 's life in one 's hands . |
4 | If proceedings have been issued you may be required to contribute to the Defendants ' legal costs , but this will usually be limited to the same amount that you contributed to the Legal Aid Board in respect of your own legal costs . |
5 | Harkin , serving his second term as senator after five terms in the House of Representatives , was an unabashed liberal ; a populist of working-class stock and thus able to appeal to the Democrats ' traditional constituency , his abrasiveness could alienate middle-class voters . |
6 | He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 . |
7 | He had kept away from the house , not wanting to intrude on the Bonnards ' private grief . |
8 | Gould grew to depend on the Aborigines ' local knowledge to find birds that were new to the Western world and to learn about their habits . |
9 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
10 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
11 | In the history of the nation , the temple — and its associated ritualism — rose and fell , as oppression and persecution ( not to speak of the Israelites ' hot-and-cold religious attitudes ) promoted or denied its expression . |
12 | Employers also usually give a disturbance allowance , pay for bridging loans or use the services of a specialist relocation company to dispose of the employees ' old homes . |