Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 2 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 3 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 4 | For example , in both West Germany and Britain in the 1980s conservative governments attempted to ‘ catch up ’ on introducing new technologies and new media as an antidote — as they saw it — to their socialist predecessors ' delaying tactics . |
| 5 | To his senior executives ' chagrin , Mr McGovern always flies economy class and is proud of it . |