Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
| 2 | A general war weariness , grievances over high taxation , and a deep fear amongst the Anglican majority of the population that the Church was now in greater danger from Protestant Nonconformists than it was from popery , all worked to the Tories ' advantage . |
| 3 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 4 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 5 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 6 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 7 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 8 | TWO youths who had spiked a social worker 's toast with rat poison were yesterday referred to the Children 's Hearing for sentence . |
| 9 | This has always added to the clergy 's spiritual authority and status , and has tended to merge with the authority claimed by the clergy in matters of faith and morals , with the high clergy deciding what constitutes matters of faith and morals . |
| 10 | For example , when describing experiments psychologists still refer to the subjects ' ‘ response ’ to the ‘ stimulus ’ materials . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the Northern Polar Institute claimed that nuclear tests on the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya were also contributing to the seals ' deaths . |
| 12 | All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency . |
| 13 | Before there could be any school in Stockport , it was first necessary for the executors to purchase property which could then be legally transferred to the Goldsmiths ' Company . |
| 14 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 15 | Underground leaflets issued by the Unified Leadership now refer to the Women 's Higher Council and The Palestinian Declaration of Independence issued by the Palestine National Council on November 1988 includes a clear statement guaranteeing equal rights for women . |
| 16 | At the time of writing it appears that the broker in this case has gone into liquidation without making the required payment , and the couple must now turn to the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , which can pay compensation in cases where ( a ) the broker has gone into liquidation , and ( b ) the original investment was taken up about 28 August 1988 . |
| 17 | Very arrogant academically , and one of the people most opposed to the women 's support group in the English faculty . ’ |
| 18 | She strongly objects to the chimps ' tea party in Brooke Bond tea ads : ‘ I still want to know how the chimps are made to move their mouths like that . |
| 19 | Mr Roh 's advisers had urged him to delay any cabinet reshuffle to avoid the impression that he was simply responding to the students ' demands . |
| 20 | A standard probe such as a plasmid containing the genes encoding a variety of ribosomal RNAs will then hybridise to the bacteria 's ribosomal RNA genes in a characteristic pattern . |
| 21 | If you thought that seeds and cuttings were the only way to increase your garden plants then turn to the Gardeners ' Manual for a host of practical ideas to try . |
| 22 | Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley . |
| 23 | Ironically , the quest for profits may ultimately come to the dolphins ' rescue . |
| 24 | Despite the limitations of the horizontal loom , it is eminently suited to the nomads ' way of life , being both easy to assemble and take down , and not too large or cumbersome to be carried by donkey or camel . |
| 25 | and it was very to actually go to a children 's |
| 26 | In ballets such as Petrushka and Rodeo they are wandering around , watching and occasionally responding to the dancers ' efforts . |