Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , if the court 's powers are to be meaningful , there must come a point at which the court , while not disregarding the child 's wishes , can override them in the child 's own best interests , objectively considered . |
| 3 | Can we trust them with the nation 's economy ? |
| 4 | If they seem to cause no problems , you can include them in the child 's diet . |
| 5 | We do not know which of the library 's facilities and services should be offered to these different categories of user , and we would like the Committee 's guidance in codifying procedures . |
| 6 | He thought later — ‘ When I could think , ’ he said — that it was as if the soul knew that it must surrender itself into the Lad 's hands , to do with as he wished . |
| 7 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
| 8 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 9 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 10 | So , if the retailer moves the tea or coffee every few weeks and replaces it with another product ( perhaps one that does n't sell as well ) he can bring it to the customer 's attention . |
| 11 | Tomorrow you should bring it to the shaman 's lodge and we 'll burn it with bird fat , honey and a strip of the dried skin of a wolf . |
| 12 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Besides , if you 're a drugs syndicate and want to murder someone who knows a bit too much , you do n't do it in the victim 's office , do you ? |
| 14 | First , and obviously , does it do anything for the sufferer 's disease ? |
| 15 | I asked him where he was goin' to get the pennies from , and he said he 'd nick them from the superintendent 's gas money . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , Mother , we 'll see you in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll see you in a week 's time , so I will . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll see you in a week 's time , Nick ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Fenella can follow you in a day 's time . ’ |
| 20 | He said to go away and come back and see him in a year 's time . ’ |
| 21 | THE Prime Minister 's senior advisers will meet this weekend to try to rescue the Government 's student top-up loans scheme , as the clearing banks — which would run it on the Treasury 's behalf — stiffen their opposition . |
| 22 | ‘ But I do n't think they would let me run it on the company 's machine , ’ he added regretfully . |
| 23 | He could see it in the man 's eyes and the manner in which his gaze lingered on Nona . |
| 24 | You do n't like it in the King 's Road , because they wo n't let you into the boutiques , and you 're too young to try on the dresses . " |
| 25 | ’ Do you see anything in the boatman 's question to suggest that he was the village idiot ? ’ |
| 26 | In response to the charge in a leaflet by Tom Mann and the Red International of Labour Unions that the NUGW had refused to support the miners on Black Friday , Thorne adroitly deflected criticism by declaring that this was malicious propaganda designed to ‘ disrupt everyone of the workmen 's organisations ’ ( SE 20 August 21 ) . |
| 27 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 28 | Mr Cruickshank has spent just over three years in charge of the Scottish health service and has helped set it on the Government 's controversial road to self-governing hospitals and fund-holding family doctor practices . |
| 29 | You are asked to complete and return it to the Company 's Registrars in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and , in any event , so that it is returned not later than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting . |
| 30 | A cell awaited her , and certain death — unless she could throw herself on the Queen 's mercy . |