Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain . |
| 2 | ‘ ( a ) the name of any person is without sufficient cause entered in or omitted from a company 's register of members , or ( b ) default is made or unnecessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member , the person aggrieved or any member of the company , or the company may apply to the court for rectification of the register . ’ |
| 3 | This might be according to whether the client is new to the bureau or not , whether the enquiry is new or a continuing problem , or according to a client 's age , sex , origin , economic activity or area of residence . |
| 4 | Here we would just like to mention briefly some of the studies that came out between 1980 and 1986 , which attempt to develop accounts that would be either specifically feminist or draw upon a women 's point of view . |
| 5 | A seamen 's canteen licence only permits the sale of alcoholic liquor for consumption in the canteen , and it is an offence to supply in or take from a seamen 's canteen liquor for consumption off the premises ( see s.96 ) . |
| 6 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
| 7 | Did she take it with her when she went to the rubbish skip or dash to a stationer 's and buy it ? |
| 8 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 9 | She was big , well-off , theatrical , and lived above a butcher 's shop in Shepherds Market , Mayfair . |
| 10 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 11 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 12 | Some months later she became a paid organizer for the WSPU , and moved into a worker 's tenement in the Euston Road . |
| 13 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
| 14 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 15 | It was wrapped up in black-and-white striped paper and twisted like a unicorn 's horn . |
| 16 | The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour . |
| 17 | The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light . |
| 18 | His Pilgrim 's Progress was by far the most popular book in the cottages of the poor , and in Apollyon he had conjured up a monster fit for any fable : scaled , bear-footed , dragon-winged and breathing fire and smoke from a lion 's mouth . |
| 19 | The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island . |
| 20 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 21 | This was standard practice , both in tournaments and in war , but the French knight , he said , broke parole and escaped on a squire 's rouncy . |
| 22 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 23 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 24 | And if minute ice crystals break away from these frozen drops and get into a monarch 's body through one of its breathing holes , they can , as it were , remind the fluid inside that it , too , should be frozen . |
| 25 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 26 | Life cycle analysis is a cradle-to-grave study of the materials and energy used and release during a product 's lifetime — including its production , use , transport and disposal . |
| 27 | The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree 's branch . |
| 28 | His face was round , soft and glowing like a baby 's and his gentle , grey eyes were laughing despite his verbal cynicism . |
| 29 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 30 | Yet a statement of national intent concerning the learnings planned and provided for a nation 's youth is surely a document which should be available and one which needs to be open to public criticism . |