Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | More often than not , the producer 's money comes out of the artist 's record company royalty payment . |
2 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
3 | Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat . |
4 | Lannaman 's exaltedness stood out against the bleak , colourless squalor of working-class Aston , cluttered with roads of derelict , condemned or should-be-condemned houses . |
5 | Today 's case came out of a fight hear at the Coachmaker 's Arms , but the landlord says the days of Wallingford 's louts are numbered . |
6 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
7 | Will not CBI ( Scotland ) take a dim view of the Government 's decision to opt out of a commitment to the single currency ? |
8 | But is not the Prime Minister 's decision to opt out of the social charter — — ’ opt out ’ were the words that he used — an admission that , after 12 years of Tory rule , the economy is not as sound , robust and healthy as the Government try to claim but is so fragile that it can not support the most basic workers ' rights that will be enjoyed in the rest of Europe ? |
9 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
10 | ENGLAND look clear favourites to stage cricket 's next World Cup following South Africa 's decision to drop out of the bidding . |
11 | ENGLAND now look clear favourites to stage cricket 's next World Cup following South Africa 's decision to drop out of the bidding . |
12 | Yesterday , the union claimed the first jobs casualty of the base rate rise — the Automobile Association 's announcement of 500 job losses , in the wake of the company 's decision to pull out of the air package holiday business . |
13 | Thousands of staff at two of Britain 's biggest aerospace companies are worried there may be yet more redundancies following Germany 's decision to pull out of the European Fighter project . |
14 | When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force . |
15 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
16 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
17 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
18 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
19 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |
20 | Philip 's Mum came out of the house . |
21 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
22 | But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … . |
23 | Mett 's luck ran out in the final . |
24 | The path from Billy 's cottage wound down towards the river bank . |
25 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
26 | Jahsaxa , kneeling on Zambia 's hair spread out on the floor , roughly put her taloned fingers in hir silently screaming mouth , and jerked hir head backwards . |
27 | Gabriel 's heart went out to the playmaster . |
28 | ‘ Brother , ’ he whispered , ‘ we have the Regent 's permission to go down to the Springall house now , to examine and take anything we wish . |
29 | Forster 's breathing whistled out of the one-way valve . |
30 | Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table . |