Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 2 | As Lawler shone the torch outside Maggie listened to the protesting groan of timbers and prayed the hotel was n't going to suddenly collapse as the McPhersons ' house had done . |
| 3 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 4 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 5 | Of course , the original John Birch model is still owned by the Sabs ' mainman . |
| 6 | I became more and more used to the Houys ' ideas and way of life . |
| 7 | He was forgiven and rapidly advanced by the Commons ' managers , joining the important recess committee ( September ) and chairing the inquisitorial information committee ( January 1642 ) . |
| 8 | The era was further epitomized by the Beatles ' number one hit at the start of the year , ‘ Day Tripper ’ , and the Rolling Stones ' new album , Aftermath . |
| 9 | This respect for Eliot and the desire to do something of which he would approve , was further manifested in the Maritains ' wish that I should visit Bergson . |
| 10 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 11 | Other families who provided JPs at different times , such as the Harcourts and the Hampdens , also feature among the Stonors ' correspondents ( 24 , i , facing 7 , 69–70 , 113–14 , 151 , ii , 57–8 ) . |
| 12 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 13 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 14 | However according to the Rapoports ' analysis of the dual career family , women remain the domesticated individuals . |
| 15 | Probe 's Information Officer at the time , Vanessa Alexander , felt completely compromised by the Loblaws ' deal . |
| 16 | I 'd been too diverted by the Unwins ' rejoicings . |