Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watson 's absence gave the home side 's attack a threadbare look , at least on paper and Gooch and Stewart looked set to capitalise on its relative inexperience and some profligate catching after the England captain won his first toss of the series . |
| 2 | Now members are hoping Geraldine 's arrival could give the club 's image a healthy boost . |
| 3 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 4 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 5 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 6 | Whenever Shiva considered the word he saw in his mind 's eye a grinning Mephistopheles with small , curly ram 's horns , capering in frock coat . |
| 7 | It was of no help to her inner disquiet , as she left her room , that she saw in her mind 's eye a picture of the aristocratic-looking Ven Gajdusek . |
| 8 | Since Ebrahimi was decided , s 459 of the Companies Act 1985 has added to the minority shareholder 's armoury a claim of ‘ unfair prejudice ’ , but only in so far as the conduct ( actual or threatened ) that he complains of is prejudicial to him in his capacity as a member . |
| 9 | We are giving Her Majesty 's inspectorate a key role in monitoring the quality of those permitted to carry out that public service . |
| 10 | Has Colonel Gaddafi yet given Her Majesty 's Government a detailed list of all the guns , ammunition and Semtex explosives which Libya supplied to the Provisional IRA , much of which has already been used to kill and mutilate British citizens ? |
| 11 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 12 | Mr Walsh said Mr Bush had shown an ‘ arrogant disdain for the rule of law ’ and called the president 's action a ‘ final attempt to cover up the scandal ’ . |
| 13 | But the LEA refused to offer the applicant 's mother a grant for the child to be educated at that school . |
| 14 | Even as he felt the danger of his need sweep over him , he perceived another danger beneath it : he let the pleasure of her carry him off , but within his pleasure 's flow a small bitter seed remained , as it were stuck between his teeth , offering him warning . |
| 15 | ‘ Must n't stay long , ’ she said , giving Dot 's hand a little squeeze . |
| 16 | Fractured , non-serial forms in the texts mentioned suggest a concurrence with conditions of contemporary history , summed up in Italo Calvino 's If on a Winter 's Night a Traveller ( 1982 ) which remarks that : |
| 17 | Quests and questions of a distinctly Calvinian kind are the stuff of the two very intelligent novels published to date by Daniele Del Giudice : Lo stadio di Wimbledon ( Centre Court 1983 ) and Atlante occidentale ( Western atlas 1985 ) , both of which also have a metaliterary dimension which links them to Calvino 's other influential late novel , If on a Winter 's Night a Traveller ( 1983 ) . |
| 18 | But Ted Hudson and other signalmen like him know that in the early hours of a winter 's morning a visitation from Aubrey Clark 's ghost is a real and frightening possibility . |
| 19 | On confirmation of District Council 's agreement a statement of general conformity and in business you do n't sort of give your position away , erm |
| 20 | Exactly how many ‘ teeth ’ such a fish has to ‘ sink into the mild mannered moggy ’ is doubtful , but we bet it gave the cat 's foot a nasty suck … |
| 21 | The Conservative 's plan a continuation of current training programmes for the long-term unemployed together with a new initiative in conjunction with the Training and Enterprise Councils giving people a voucher with which they can buy a ‘ skill check ’ , providing guidance on how to make the most of their working lives . |
| 22 | Noah intended to repay to Oliver every insult he had ever received , and to make the new boy 's life a misery . |
| 23 | There between my legs , the front wheels , and I ended up holding the handlebars and staring into this wee boy 's face a look of sheer fucking terror on his face , |
| 24 | The doctor had told the boy to leave and get his father , but on their return the doctor appeared at the door of the hut and handed the boy 's father a baby girl wrapped in his wife 's shawl . |
| 25 | In the Queen 's carriage a day compartment adjoining the balcony contained couch , armchairs , table and writing desks ; next to it was a smaller compartment with a bedstead for Princess Mary . |
| 26 | As he passed by the city 's Queen 's Bridge a bullet ricocheted off a nearby wall as the Scottish internationalist dived for cover . |
| 27 | She 's calling the girl 's mum a prostitute . |
| 28 | Doc Threadneedle stepped in , and gave the cowboy 's arm a wrench , setting the joint back in true . |
| 29 | Isabel saw the same shock replace the ferocity in fitzAlan 's face a second before his gaze flashed to a point beyond her . |
| 30 | To allow matching for proximity of mother 's residence to a nuclear establishment at the time of her child 's birth a further series of controls was selected from locally held hospital delivery registers . |