Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 2 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |
| 3 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 4 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |
| 5 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 6 | This awkwardness which might be successfully exploited by a writer in a different context , forces itself on the reader 's attention , detracting from the force of discreet . |
| 7 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 8 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 9 | Leapor describes herself as the woman 's ‘ Slave ’ in ‘ The Disappointment ’ [ ML , 2 , 81 ] . |
| 10 | Developed as a result of all the efforts being poured into the LCD screens for portable computers , the LCD tablet allows anything on the computer 's screen to be projected via an overhead projector onto a conventional screen . |
| 11 | But links them in a bird 's inhuman joy |
| 12 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 13 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 14 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 15 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 16 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 17 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 18 | Fenella , leaning forward eagerly , said , ‘ But listen , the journey to the Fire Court takes you past the Robemaker 's Workshops . |
| 19 | With horror and doubt on his face , the elder seizes a pitchfork and hurls it into the gangster 's back ’ It could be argued from the Kantian standpoint that the elder had failed in his duty by not upholding the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence . |
| 20 | An attacker throws a right punch which is blocked with an outside palm , which then wraps itself around the attacker 's wrist in a grabbing movement . |
| 21 | She assures him she has no such thing ; he enters the tower to look for a foutre and indeed finds one beneath the lady 's clothes . |
| 22 | But Alexander and his friend Christine ( who performs something of the Rat 's role as aide-de-camp ) carry on the quest in the spirit of the junior adventure of the 1930s , with the equipment proper to their years of curiosity , keen eyes and perseverance . |
| 23 | Ahn snaps it across the man 's wrist — breaking the bone , I think . |
| 24 | It provokes an answer , anticipates it and structures itself in the answer 's direction . ’ |
| 25 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 26 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 27 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 28 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |
| 29 | Once alcohol is absorbed , it distributes itself in the body 's lean tissue ( muscle ) . |
| 30 | It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents . |