Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 2 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 3 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 4 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 5 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 6 | A research and advice centre on plant diseases on pests , it has been described as a doctors ' surgery for farmers . |