Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recurrence rate was similar to that reported after two years ' treatment with omeprazole . |
| 2 | He drew the nut grove in the Lamonts ' garden and the surrounding countryside , especially the view over the Weald found within two minutes ' walk from their house . |
| 3 | Keith Fletcher , fielding at gully , shouted in that EastEnders ' accent : ‘ Well done , Greigy , give ‘ im another . ’ |
| 4 | However , when the personal thefts were restricted to those which occurred within 15 minutes ' walk of the victim 's home , unemployment was again a statistically significant factor . |
| 5 | They too will be attacked by an enemy force ( 1 PARA ) , parachuted into friendly forces ' positions with a view to causing maximum confusion . |
| 6 | They were assisted by the referee , Clive Norling , who added on nine minutes ' injury time despite the lack of an injury stoppage worth the name . |
| 7 | The nuns were charged with ‘ splittist activity ’ and condemned to three years ' labour for being ‘ extremely arrogant ’ . |
| 8 | The officer in command of a military unit which in July 1986 burned to death a photographer , Rodrigo Rojas de Negri , and severely burned his colleague , Carmen Quintana Arancibia [ see p. 34985 ] was in August 1989 condemned to 300 days ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 9 | The AFRC also reduced to 10 years ' imprisonment the life sentences of three others . |
| 10 | The regime in the Detoxification Unit consisted of five days ' methadone reduction followed by two weeks of Clonidine . |
| 11 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |
| 12 | Er the er the breeders ' evening now what happened on this breeders ' evening is that the they run the raffle then give us our expenses out of it so that eleven pound eighty is the is the part of the raffle proceeds which we need to , to e to er for our expenses , you 'll see on the other side erm that we spent that eleven eighty , six eighty for er refreshments and five pound for the rent . |
| 13 | We also saw that in C-1 , Brenda commented on other players ' actions in Creole ( him tryina concentrate , etc. ) while some of her questions addressed directly to the players were in London English , for example : " what does telephone mean , please ? " |
| 14 | A smile was almost brought to Auguste 's face at the thought of Multhrop 's reaction as half the Imperial 's china vanished into medical detectives ' laboratories . |
| 15 | He subscribed to Parisian colleagues ' relief during the 1870–1 siege , becoming an honorary member of their Cercle de la librairie , de l'imprimerie , de la papeterie … |
| 16 | Inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale in the Crimea , she was determined to become a nurse , and eventually , in 1860 , she overcame her mother 's opposition and embarked on eight months ' training at Kaiserswerth . |
| 17 | Stukeley in his diary for 1745 , however , claimed that the medieval university evolved from All Saints ' College , established in 1109 at Wothorpe , by Joffied , Abbot of Crowland Abbey . |
| 18 | His secretaryship of the UDC , which he held until his death , cost him his Liberal candidacy and led to six months ' imprisonment for a technical breach of the Defence of the Realm Act . |
| 19 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |
| 20 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 21 | Possibly it was secondhand , but it still looked like five bucks ' worth of book , I reckoned . |
| 22 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 23 | She knew from thirty years ' experience that bullies were a breed apart . |
| 24 | ROBBIE What got me was when I went to other folks ' houses . |
| 25 | P. H. If you went at 25 years ' service , you got half pension . |
| 26 | The team also looked at other companies ' inductions , including those of our clients . |
| 27 | Her parents complained about social services ' behaviour during her pregnancy and the birth of her second child . |
| 28 | They toured with another Leeds ' band , Age Of Chance , who were breaking at a faster pace than themselves . |
| 29 | During the General Strike , the League collaborated with other employers ' organizations , such as the FBI , to provide information to the government on coal stocks and shortages , the availability of transport and the organization of strike-breaking operations . |
| 30 | Lucky Rob had all criminal charges dropped , but only on the condition that he put in two years ' community service , visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs , talking to juvenile delinquents and visiting prisons in his home town of Drayton , Ohio . |