Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 2 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 3 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 4 | Built around the turn of the century , it had been designed originally as a soldiers ' barracks . |
| 5 | A cross-trainer ( multi-purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £40 . |
| 6 | The survey carried out by the traders ' magazine , ‘ Checkout Ireland ’ , came up with the ‘ alarming result ’ that 80pc of retailers have been affected by crime . |
| 7 | And the copyist left a blank in one other movement : the instrumental bass line of the song ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — one of the ‘ new ’ songs , placed just before the Haymakers ' scene . |
| 8 | The characteristic styles of discourse and the linguistic comic devices of the French fabliaux are also related fundamentally to the tales ' narrative character . |
| 9 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 10 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 11 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 12 | He and Vivienne were also probably fed up with the teds ' meathead mentality . |
| 13 | The Consumers ' Assocation said : ‘ People are fed up with the banks ' incompetence , compounded by arrogance . ’ |
| 14 | Subsection ( 7 ) deals with cases where a deposit has been made out of a clients ' account or the like . |
| 15 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |
| 16 | Creole is used variably by the parents ' generation , but not usually when persons from outside are present . |
| 17 | This prompted fears that US personnel might be drawn directly into the politicians ' nightmare — someone else 's war , the spectre of another Viet Nam . |
| 18 | The young Fusiliers had been patriotically offered up for the politicians ' errors ; they had even been bullied by the militant women brandishing their white feathers , and they went cheering , singing , promising to come home victoriously to the grime and love of their Lancashire womb . |
| 19 | Partly through Agitprop and partly through the Black Dwarf group a free-sheet was produced to be handed out on the dockers ' march . |
| 20 | All mortgages by companies of registered land must be registered both at the Companies ' Registry and the Land Registry . |
| 21 | ‘ After The Storm ’ once sounded remarkably like The Chameleons ' ‘ Swamp Thing ’ but now , possibly due to the time lapse or the injection of fresh young blood , it becomes a substantial pop song with trendy keyboards and influential , garbled guitar noises . |
| 22 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 23 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 24 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 25 | With a flourish he produced another motley collection of spinning components , this time cobbled together from the Chelonians ' technical stores . |
| 26 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 27 | Some surveyors may find such a loss of direct involvement personally unacceptable , particularly if not trained for the new role , but the growth rate of a firm is probably dictated more by the partners ' ability to manage the organisation than by their own capacity for surveying work . |
| 28 | He is furious that billions of pounds he wanted freed to put in people 's pockets are locked up by the banks ' determination to boost profits . |
| 29 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 30 | The workers in gold spilled out of the Goldsmiths ' Bazaar and into the surrounding streets and alleyways . |