Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole fish in a rich sweet-and-sour sauce came as a relief to those of us who knew that fish tends to come near a banquet 's close . |
| 2 | What can you say about a club which apparently could not afford to stay in hotel accommodation but had no problem finding 5,000 dollars to slip into a referee 's back pocket ? |
| 3 | Some playing positions are prone to collide with a Floyd 's fine tuning system and this one seems to be especially sensitive . |
| 4 | But schools now inevitably become more tense about a failing teacher or a teacher with personal problems or problems of health who may not be able to concentrate on a pupil 's assessable skills . |
| 5 | When Merrill did n't speak he said shortly , ‘ Of course , far be it from me to pry into a client 's financial arrangements , but it struck Bob as rather strange . |
| 6 | If you really want to know I 'm going to look through a corpse 's personal effects . |
| 7 | Cathy registered as a childminder when she started to look after a friend 's young son . |
| 8 | The last five years have seen heavy investment in a fully integrated computer system that allows it to deal with a customer 's total needs in one phone call — ordering , cancelling and general enquiries . |
| 9 | Weber , on the other hand , while agreeing that class had much to do with a person 's economic position within a social organisation of capital and labour , departed from this dualistic conception . |
| 10 | The notion is gaining credence that health-care seeking in IBS , particularly to tertiary care centres , may have as much to do with a person 's cultural and psychosocial state as with the IBS symptoms themselves . |
| 11 | Laing firmly believes , however , in assisted share purchase and profit-sharing schemes , which give all employees the opportunity to share in a company 's financial achievements . |
| 12 | ‘ It could be anything from a new sail shape or keel design to gossip about a skipper 's sexual preferences . ’ |
| 13 | The CRE 's findings and recommendations are expected to go to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , for approval and action if its inquiry upholds complaints that the region 's methods may be in breach of race relations and education law for failing to test in a child 's first language . |
| 14 | The men from the lorry picked their way through a graveyard of broken stones to pray at a sheikh 's white-domed tomb , while we made our way across a wide flood plain of gravel and cracked mud to the river . |
| 15 | There is a need to distinguish between a child 's mental representation and the different ways that may be used to realize that mental representation pictorially . |
| 16 | In theory it may sound radical to interfere with a doctor 's right to prescribe , although it was not the drug that was being withdrawn , only the branded version . |