Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French horsemen were close enough for Sharpe to see their cadenettes , the pigtails which framed each man 's face as a mark of distinction Their equipment looked good and new , and their horses were well fed . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 3 | On Thursday , 26 March , this court dismissed this appellant 's appeal against conviction . |
| 4 | The memorandum also reiterated each side 's non-recognition of dual nationality , and Li later urged Chinese nationals living in Indonesia to respect the laws of their country of residence . |
| 5 | And 'e niver played another day 's cricket for England for Yorkshire . |
| 6 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
| 7 | I added some goat 's cheese to the basket . |
| 8 | Equally , we noted some heads ' resistance to developing their own professional understanding and their failure to engage with current educational issues . |
| 9 | Last , but most definitely no least , came this year 's entrant to the UK Marketing Hall of Fame in the form of Sir Alistair Grant , chairman and chief executive of the Argyll Group , owner of Safeway . |
| 10 | Following the talks a joint communiqué reiterated both governments ' adherence to the protocol signed in Damascus in August 1987 , and in addition Turkey committed itself to releasing more than the current 500 cubic metres of water a second to Syria . |
| 11 | Ferguson had developed this notion of ‘ half a loaf ’ in reply to those left-wing critics who condemned both Hollywood 's lack of political detail and its slickness . |
| 12 | The rapid progress of military and naval technology , organisational changes , the sheer growth in the size of armies and navies , meant that states scrutinised each other 's progress in these respects with increasing care , while the few serious armed conflicts of 1871 – 1914 became laboratories in which new weapons and methods could be studied and their effectiveness tested . |
| 13 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 14 | Fears about the conjunction of ‘ race ’ and sex shaped these films ' interrogation of White female sexuality in the years immediately following the last major wave of Black settlers in the mid to late 1950s . |
| 15 | It also welcomed these republics ' affirmation of " their readiness to respect the international commitments of the Soviet Union and to ensure single control of nuclear weapons on their territory " [ see p. 38655 ] . |
| 16 | The summit declaration applauded those countries ' commitment to political and economic reform , and called attention to a continuing programme of visits and contacts . |
| 17 | An analysis of the half-year accounts and projections for the end of 1991 indicated that LAB 's expenditure for the year would be somewhat over budget , due entirely to costs hitherto outside it control . |
| 18 | The Church of Ireland withdrew its schools from the plan which threatened that church 's dominance over the primary sector . |
| 19 | He therefore lacked those breeds ' capacity to ‘ set the problem in terms of historical perspective or first principles ’ . |
| 20 | She called this Glastonbury 's Temple of the Stars , now generally known as the Glastonbury Zodiac . |
| 21 | Everyone else thought the decisions had been made but in fact we totally re-did that season 's collection in a waiting room at Brussels airport , just the two of us . ’ |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , the children also felt that day 's drama to be very special . |
| 23 | And Mr Smith stressed that Labour 's promise of a national minimum wage , which the Tories warned would cost jobs , remained the cornerstone of policy . |
| 24 | On his thigh Jaq wore that warlock 's image in phosphorescent green . |
| 25 | Anyway , she went to she took this sister 's post in The Yale |
| 26 | She sent all Angel 's money to her family , who as usual had many expenses and hardly any income . |
| 27 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 28 | Curiously , this is the only Powell/Pressburger film to give such credits and the first Powell one to do so since the multi-directed The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) , which in fact won that year 's Oscar for effects and sound . |
| 29 | The findings also supported this author 's conclusion in a review of data in the early 1960s , that the further along the socio-economic scale one went , the more were entertainment and relaxation the motives for newspaper-reading ( Seymour-Ure , 1968 ) . |
| 30 | SEAN YATES , the Briton who won this year 's Tour of Belgium , tested positive for steroids during the race , his lawyer said yesterday . |