Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankful that because of Rosie 's appendix she knew the quickest way to the hospital well , Shelley drove like a demon after the ambulance , and ran in as the casualty was stretchered in . |
| 2 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 3 | At yesterday 's investiture he joined the newly-knighted television presenter Sir David Frost , the sports commentator David Coleman , also an OBE , and the Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies , who was invested as an MBE . |
| 4 | In the back streets that lead towards Victor 's place I carry the dead weight in my carrier bag , and I feel rootless . |
| 5 | As time trouble approached , Short went for a wild kingside attack , but Karpov played well and it was Short 's king which proved the weaker . |
| 6 | Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils . |
| 7 | This production was based on the famous Keith Waterhouse novel Billy Liar , about an undertaker 's assistant who escapes the dull routine of everyday life by entering a world of fantasy . |
| 8 | Ironically , in view of what had happened fifty years earlier , it was now the School 's success which precipitated the next crisis . |
| 9 | For Christ 's Hospital he designed the new grammar school ( 1793 , demolished ) — receiving a gratuity of 100 guineas ‘ for his great attention during the building ’ because he had charged at a rate of only 2½ per cent instead of the usual 5 per cent — and additions to the school in Hertford ( 1800 ) , and also made designs for various ambitious unexecuted schemes for redeveloping the main buildings . |
| 10 | No , but if they took Les 's garden you see the other side would be a rubbish dump so |
| 11 | Whereas , in Fulk le Réchin 's account which preserved the comital family 's own early tradition , Geoffrey was a solid but unremarkable figure , in the Gesta he has undergone transmogrification . |
| 12 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 13 | On Dec. 2 Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party which won the largest number of seats in the National Assembly , was appointed Prime Minister of a new civilian government . |
| 14 | During the interregnum which followed Alexander 's death he hoped the Russian crown would go to the Grand Duke Konstantin , whom he considered a moderate . |
| 15 | On Lehmann 's death he inherited the whole estate . ’ |
| 16 | Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works . |
| 17 | However , as STEPHEN THORPE reports , this historic match was marred by a spectators ' boycott which kept the overall crowd down to 6500 |
| 18 | The director and an adviser attended the governors ' meeting which received the final report , the director stressing that follow-up to the report was as important as the exercise itself . |
| 19 | In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive . |
| 20 | THE PLAYERS ' strike which brought the National Hockey League to a standstill in the United States is over . |
| 21 | THE PLAYERS ' strike which brought the National Hockey League to a standstill in the United States is over . |