Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 4 | It was wrapped up in black-and-white striped paper and twisted like a unicorn 's horn . |
| 5 | The man who refused to take part was court martialled , cashiered and sentenced to a year 's hard labour . |
| 6 | The face was female , sculpted , golden , mellow , ideal and framed by a lion 's mane of light . |
| 7 | The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree 's branch . |
| 10 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Richard laughed at a vision of the nipple cut off and stuck like a baby 's dummy in Martin 's mouth . |
| 14 | He was quickly surrounded by police and taken to a neighbour 's house where they broke the tragic news that his four children — Sharon , aged five , and her brothers , Francis , four , Martin three , and Stefan , one — were dead . |
| 15 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 16 | She could see only through a watery mist and realized after a moment 's panic that she still had her reading glasses on . |
| 17 | Potager describes a particular type of formal vegetable garden planned and planted with a draughtsman 's precision to achieve an intricate symmetrical design of beds bounded by clipped hedges and separated by gravel walks . |
| 18 | Hercules is often depicted holding a club and draped with a lion 's hide . |
| 19 | There is very little waste paper and no plastic , for foodstuffs are not pre-packaged here but sold from a farmer 's barrow or the back of a bike . |