Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 2 | Even so , these ‘ inactivity ’ spaces are decorated in the Edgsons ' inimitable style . |
| 3 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 4 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 5 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 6 | He contended that since the transfer had been induced by the Hammonds ' fraud , both the registration of the Hammonds as proprietors and the registration of the building society 's legal charge could be described as having been ‘ obtained by fraud . ’ |
| 7 | Any outstanding payment will be collected through the Booksellers ' Clearing House at the end of January . |
| 8 | Laughton refuses to be drawn on the Leeds ' target , but he is keen on Great Britain tour scrum half Deryck Fox , valued at £150,000 after telling Featherstone he was determined to leave before the start of the new season . |
| 9 | In battle they believe so strongly in the power of the Orc gods Gork and Mork to protect them that enemy arrows and swords blows really can be deflected by the Orcs ' aura of self-generated arcane power . |
| 10 | A proposal by brewery giants , Guinness , to put up the price of the pint by 2p has been opposed by the Vintners ' Federation of Ireland , which represents 6,000 publicans outside the Dublin area . |
| 11 | Tales were exchanged of the Lovelocks ' exploits . |
| 12 | But he admitted to being confused about the Serbs ' current aims . |
| 13 | Her spite is aroused by the Gattletons ' ostentatious amateur theatricals , and she successfully sets herself to sabotage the proceedings ; her daughter Emma . |
| 14 | And what excuse is given by the Shipowners ' Federation ? |
| 15 | A relative who is staying at the Bennetts ' Liverpool Road home stressed today that they were not building up their hopes . |
| 16 | The track is backed with the Manics ' first ever single , ‘ Suicide Alley ’ , originally issued as a limited edition of 300 seven-inch copies in 1988 , plus two exclusive new songs , ‘ Yankee Drawl ’ and ‘ Never Want Again ’ . |
| 17 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 18 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 19 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 20 | Beginning in 1923 , when Vita and her husband ( Sir ) Harold Nicolson [ q.v. ] came to stay at the Villa Medici , the affair lasted into 1925 and was followed by the Scotts ' divorce in 1927 . |
| 21 | Zach was sitting on the Littles ' dilapidated gate waiting for him . |
| 22 | Pike 's face was now pressed firmly into what was left of the Quigleys ' wallpaper . |
| 23 | Closer to hand , the white Triumph was standing outside the Styches ' house , and Mr Frizzell gazed at it uneasily . |
| 24 | Following the publication by the National Board of ‘ Do Not Be Afraid , ’ in 1991 , a Joint Dialogue Group was established by the Bishops ' Conference and the NBCW . |