Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [coord] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph took a glass from the officer 's tray but did n't drink ; instead he continued looking in his mother 's direction , ready to smile in sympathy . |
| 2 | Section 238 only applies to transactions entered into at an under value within two years prior to the onset of the vendor 's insolvency and does not apply to sales by a liquidator as , amongst other things , this is a sale after the onset of insolvency . |
| 3 | non-threatening , ie the humour is not at someone else 's expense and does not ridicule anyone except yourself |
| 4 | Stay within AI 's Mandate and do n't discuss ideology or politics . |
| 5 | Colonization involves merely a geographical extension of domestic law ; adoption of another State 's code is a short-cut route to the creation of the developing State 's law and does not have as its objective the facilitation of a common market or of inter-State commerce . |
| 6 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 7 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 8 | The knife gripped between his teeth slightly distorted Rev. Levitt 's articulation but did not inhibit his chatter , which rose above the shrieks of the fowls beating their wings in panic against the coop and the even more frenzied squawking of the hen imprisoned in his hands . |
| 9 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 10 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 11 | Pascoe could hear the residue in Thomas 's voice and did n't want to know what was left to tell . |
| 12 | It 's a fight against all that dehumanises , blocks and blights those who are made in God 's image and do n't know their God-given potential in the present and in a future which goes beyond the grave . |
| 13 | You might wonder how pharmacists decipher a doctor 's scrawl but do n't worry that you 'll get the wrong drugs — a pharmacist will never dispense a prescription unless he or she is sure it is correct and will often ring the doctor . |
| 14 | It should be appreciated that if one party to the marriage has no wish to occupy the matrimonial home that party is not entitled to register a Class F Land Charge against the owner ( see Barnett v Hassett [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 1385 where the husband left the wife 's house and did not wish to occupy it ) . |
| 15 | NINE out is today 's bulletin but do n't let that fool you into thinking the whole nine would be in if they were available . |
| 16 | He possessed the true explorer 's curiosity but did not bring to his journeys his own creative touch . |
| 17 | Another passage says , ‘ My son , do not despise the Lord 's discipline and do not resent his rebuke , because the Lord disciplines those whom he loves , as a father the son he delights in . ’ |
| 18 | The faces of the many others remain with me , the bored and the bewildered ; those who lost the battle at Book 2 but who are confronting Book 4 ‘ because it is there ’ ; those who can mouth Book 4 to the teacher 's satisfaction but do not understand the concepts in it ; those who know Book 4 by heart already . |