Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry .
2 If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity .
3 I 've always wanted to be involved in things that tried to somehow create a women 's network .
4 If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks .
5 They have already appointed a gates ' superintendent for this year to ensure no one slips through the entrances without paying .
6 But Ben was already planning a children 's opera with William Plomer to be called Tyco the Vegan .
7 They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library .
8 Over the years , the VMA gradually became a students ' association and at the first general meeting of its 45th session , on 19 October 1880 , John H. Steel , the secretary and librarian , announced ‘ the Veterinary Medical Association , while having wide sympathies with its members who have become qualified practitioners , is now the Students ’ Society of the largest British Veterinary School' .
9 Still coaching a boys ' football team , and taking immense pride in a four-year-old grandson who is already demonstrating an enviable left-handed off-drive , he continues to look to the future .
10 I do n't think they 'd ever let a men 's committee
11 ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall .
12 Oxford University also has a womens ' basketball team .
13 She was later to run a ladies ' outfitters in nearby Gorleston , on the Suffolk coast .
14 Discs has also sponsored a women 's football team by supplying them with a kit partly drawn from Billy Bragg 's Red Star Belgrade promotional shirts .
15 Dash are also running a children 's colouring competition via their shops , asking children to colour in a picture of a meadow .
16 At that time we also ran a children 's hospital , so that I had the opportunity of seeing the effects of treatment on acute surgical cases , both pre- and post-operatively , as well as dealing with some fairly ill children and a good mix of diagnostic and management problems in the adult unit .
17 He has also published a children 's book on the birds of Vietnam , The Birds Are Our Friends , for distribution in Vietnam 's school system .
18 As he got ready to go to the station , his aunt was busily arranging a children 's tea party in the church hall .
19 The Second Division outfit , who had a magnificent 18–14 win at Salford , now face a Saints ' side lying third in the Stones Bitter Championship .
20 Family and friends left flowers and wreaths at the door to the building in Boughton , Chester , which now houses a women 's fashion shop on the ground floor .
21 Friends and family left flowers and wreaths on the door to the building in Boughton , Chester , which now houses a women 's fashion shop on the ground floor .
22 These gardens have taken many years to complete and now include a children 's Play area , a small lake with swans and fountains and a large sloping grassy area surrounded by trees and seats .
23 Many such agencies now have a women 's unit to deal with women 's needs vis-a-vis employment .
24 Mirman now runs a children 's shop in London 's King 's Road .
25 The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel .
26 Those who wish to apply for admission to these degrees should possess at least an upper second class honours degree or its equivalent and may well have a Masters ' degree .
27 In about 1813–14 he organized in Bermondsey a society of workmen which virtually constituted a Mechanics ' Institute , almost ten years before those established by Leonard Horner [ q.v. ]
28 ‘ the mother of seven extremely fine girls all unmarried ’ who , perturbed by the bachelor curate 's approval of the Miss Brown 's child 's examination society , hastily forms a ladies ' Bible and Prayer-book Distribution Society ( ‘ treasurer , auditors and secretary , the Misses Johnson Parker ’ ) .
29 The Region also recently sponsored a parents ' evening at Broughton High School , which provided information to around 150 parents on provision including general SVQs and National Certificate Module Clusters .
30 One time my friend and I accidentally kicked a bees ' nest , a small , round ball hidden behind the leaves some 10cm above the ground .
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