Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 3 | And I think I made it quite clear that it was not the quality of the Education Authority that was the basis of the Banbury School 's proposals , it was the County Council 's decision to go ahead on a consultation for tertiary education , an entirely different animal in Oxfordshire , and I , like Bob , would agree that the erm quality of education offered in Oxfordshire is first class . |
| 4 | The plan was devised with the help of the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , which welcomes China 's decision to go ahead as a major step toward saving the panda . |
| 5 | Will not CBI ( Scotland ) take a dim view of the Government 's decision to opt out of a commitment to the single currency ? |
| 6 | There 's always the danger of the learner 's experience looking more like a patchwork quilt than an ordered and informative sequence of events that builds knowledge on knowledge , experience on experience . |
| 7 | Siegfried 's jaw clenched tight for a moment then he motioned with his hand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 10 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 11 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 12 | Northam 's poet sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 13 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 14 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 15 | The corners of Lucinda 's mouth quirked up into a beaming smile as Vi watched , fascinated . |
| 16 | Bryn 's mouth worked silently for a few seconds . |
| 17 | Didcot 's scorer looked in with a chance of a second , and also taking the pressure off when he was put through , but instead of trying what looked a goal chance , chose to pass after sixty one minutes . |
| 18 | Billy 's bedroom looked more like a student 's room than his pad at university ever had . |
| 19 | Berndt 's gaze hovered embarrassingly on a level with her bosom and Chesarynth felt again her lack of development . |
| 20 | Kelly 's question came out as a loud protest . |
| 21 | There were , however , rumours of a split — reportedly over Montague 's desire to strike an asset deal between the three companies and Olsson 's determination to press ahead with a full bid . |
| 22 | Lots of fun and excitement as Henry 's Cat sets off on a trip to Treasure Island |
| 23 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 24 | His father 's laugh changed quickly into a prolonged cough . |
| 25 | The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August . |
| 26 | Although Nizan was later to pour scorn on the moral self-righteousness and indignation of a non-communist majority in France venting its spleen on the treacherousness of the USSR , 8 and although he was also to recognise the Soviet Union 's need to act expediently at a time of impending international disaster , 9 nonetheless something fundamental had clearly snapped in Nizan 's psychology . |
| 27 | Spent the afternoon watching youngest son 's team holding out for a draw while rushing to and from the car to get the latest score from Lord 's . |
| 28 | He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch . |
| 29 | He smiled one of his rare smiles ; like a monkey 's paw flashing out of a cage . |
| 30 | Zach 's room seemed more like a study than a bedroom . |