Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 2 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 3 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 4 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 5 | In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software . |
| 6 | With rain keeping both teams off the pitch for long periods , the ‘ corridor of uncertainty ’ took on a new meaning as Keith Fletcher commuted between the two teams ' dressing-rooms , unsure of where his priorities as coach lay . |
| 7 | They agreed with the Electrical Contractors ' Association at an early stage that they would operate on ‘ fair and unsubsidised ’ commercial lines . |
| 8 | He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals ' executive committee . |
| 9 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 10 | The individual trials lasted no more than five minutes each followed by a few minutes ' deliberation . |
| 11 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
| 12 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 13 | In the days following the crash controversy arose over the Indian authorities ' refusal to allow European investigators access to either the " black box " cockpit voice recordings or the digital flight recorder . |
| 14 | He also guested on The Bad Seeds ' ‘ Kicking Against The Pricks ’ . |
| 15 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 16 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 17 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 18 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 19 | Gerry went into the big boys ' class and Julia and I into the kindergarten where infants of three flew past us effortlessly . |
| 20 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 21 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 22 | And maybe because I went to an all girls ' school , it 's not so obvious , you do n't see girls and boys walking hand in hand in the playground . |
| 23 | Transexual Derek Arnell , 28 , underwent hormone transplants and breast implants and was months away from completing the transformation when he went on a fateful girls ' night out . |
| 24 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 25 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 26 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 27 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 28 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 29 | When we consider the more general conclusions that emerged from the other interactionists ' concern with ‘ the labellers ’ , the divergence becomes even more apparent . |
| 30 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |