Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [pron] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back .
2 Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort .
3 Gallo also quoted some of the latest work of Daniel Zagury 's team which has discovered a pentapeptide motif in gp120 which is also present in CD4 and which interferes with antigen activation possibly leading to a state of cell anergy and immunodeficiency .
4 After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times .
5 ‘ Since the Chancellor 's announcement we have had a lot of inquiries which we are confident of turning into sales , ’ says Rover dealer Ashmall Parkinson salesman David Bailey .
6 Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage …
7 On Saint Theresa 's day I had to paint a frieze of watercolour rose petals to run the length of the classroom walls .
8 Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself .
9 Arkady Volsky , leader of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs , a part of Civic Union , advocated a closer study of China 's economy which had preserved a parallel state and private sector .
10 It is a commonplace observation that if we lose a night 's sleep we tend to sleep a bit longer on subsequent nights , as if to make up a " sleep debt " .
11 On Ma Bombie 's instructions everyone had saved a small coin .
12 On May 28 , 1989 — International Day of Action for Women 's Health we plan to hold a seminar/meeting to consolidate our gains and set up a support network for the genital mutilation campaign .
13 In 1921 , in one of the more serious confrontations , the Recorder of Liverpool publicly censured the city 's police who had batoncharged a demonstration of unemployed workers with ‘ most unnecessary violence ’ .
14 They loved Polly 's garden which seemed to have a magic of its own .
15 Now , as a step away from the craftsman entrepreneur that has been John Makepeace 's hallmark he has introduced a new course to Hooke Park College for manufacturing businesses that want to make better use of wood .
16 Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't
17 She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic .
18 A day or two after Nicholas 's death he decided to found a journal .
19 In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share .
20 After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own .
21 In one creative planting episode on Gardeners ' World I want to savour a taste of Victoriana with some formal bedding .
22 I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan .
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