Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 2 | ‘ The Secretary-General had a word with the hospital 's administrator who reluctantly agreed to make an exception in the Colonel 's case and waive the normal visiting hours . |
| 3 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 4 | With a lot of effort she finally managed to close the left-hand door and bolt it into place , then pushed the arm against the dead man 's chest and forced the other door over , sliding the remains of a file through two loops where the handles had once been to keep it shut . |
| 5 | Let's get the message over , let's go without one congress and I know that 's near to John 's heart and request the other unions , A E U , U C A T , T N G , request the T N , T U C to do the same and then plaster over every bus in Britain , the G M B's policy . |
| 6 | He came wearing his purple confessor 's stole and carrying the little box of sacred oils for the anointing of the dying . |
| 7 | It was hand woven of sheep 's wool and dyed the same deep indigo colour as her mask . |
| 8 | When all five victims were stabbed or shot to death , Susan Atkins dipped a towel in Sharon Tate 's blood and daubed the single word ‘ Pig ’ on the living-room door . |
| 9 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 10 | Then he climbed on to the winner 's rostrum and became the proudest man in the world as the British National Anthem echoed around the massive Montjuic Stadium . |
| 11 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |
| 12 | At Bateman 's , 14 miles away , you can visit Rudyard Kipling 's home and see the working watermill . |
| 13 | Not only are these mosaics of great beauty and rich colour but they provide accurate data of the costume and appearance of Justinian 's period and illustrate the hieratic splendour of the Byzantine court . |
| 14 | Me and my mother stayed the night at Seve 's place and watched the Open on television . |
| 15 | O'Keefe and Nadel implanted recording electrodes into the rat 's hippocampus and studied the electrical activity of hippocampal cells during the learning of such spatial mazes . |
| 16 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 17 | I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed . |
| 18 | By 1614 he had eliminated Hideyoshi 's heir and overcome the final military opposition to his hegemony . |
| 19 | It will bring prosperity to the Negev Desert but Jordan has protested to the UN that the $1.3 billion scheme will also change the Dead Sea 's ecology and affect the local potash production . |
| 20 | Elaborately carved vases , figures , and smaller versions of the great jade mountains found in Ch'ing palaces further contributed to a man 's standing and enhanced the aesthetic ambience of the higher reaches of Chinese administration . |
| 21 | Sigarup passed a lukal , and Kalchu slung it over the ram 's back and tied the two sets of stings , one across the chest and the other round the hind legs and under the tail . |
| 22 | With Albert he planned the royal children 's education and systematized the royal household . |
| 23 | This training , quite different from the acquisition of knowledge , skill and technique which makes up education today , will be directed towards the understanding of one 's self and releasing the unique potential of each person . |
| 24 | She went to the French General 's stirrup and held the pathetic bouquet up to the grim-faced man . |
| 25 | I mean , could one do the Tesco superstore , pick up the bedding begonias and the kids from their respective nurseries , shell peas for the boss 's wife and remove the rotary drier from its rotospike so as not to offend the neighbours who 've stuck a Sky dish up against your patio view , whilst obsessed by lust ? |
| 26 | One of them moved slowly in , deftly reaching into Manville 's jacket and removing the shoulder-holstered automatic that the detectors had pinpointed . |
| 27 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 28 | It was nearly two in the afternoon when , having watched the changing of the Guard at the Amalienborg Palace , admired the copper spire of the old Stock Exchange formed by the twisted tails of four dragons , gazed in appreciation at the magnificent Gefion 's Fountain and paid the customary respects to the statue of the Little Mermaid at the entrance to the harbour , she caught a bus back to the canal district . |
| 29 | In 1831 the Sultan 's Egyptian vassal , Mehemet Ali , launched an assault on Syria which challenged Constantinople 's authority and endangered the strong position which Russia had acquired on her southern flank as a result of the Treaty of Adrianople . |
| 30 | The Department of Energy will be wound up and two new Cabinet posts created : a minister responsible for the Citizen 's Charter and reforming the civil service , and a new department responsible for broadcasting , the arts , sport , the national heritage and the film industry . |