Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 's on about dog 's leg being bad and Bill 's had a look see if he 's dented car cos he 'd just |
| 2 | Mr Healey here went on about Labour 's success in the Euro-elections ; I said it was just mid-term and all that ; and he said , With respect , no . |
| 3 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 4 | We 'll probably have something on for Mother 's day . |
| 5 | She began to wriggle down off Contralto 's back . |
| 6 | I was supposed to use it for 20 minutes on each side in between Holly 's feeds , which were every two or three hours anyway . |
| 7 | You had nothing to hold on to , you were just squeezed in between daddy 's legs . |
| 8 | Her frustrated jumping , which sent her thick , straight , dark hair — Anna 's hair — flying up and down like dog 's ears , was no more than a maddened expression of how she felt when reminded of school , of a world where she was doomed to remain odd . |
| 9 | Her head was swimming so that the gleaming brasses suspended from black overhead beams seemed double-edged , but she was damned , she told herself , if she was going to cave in under Fen 's critical gaze . |
| 10 | The other eyebrow discharged its sweat , rolling it down into Grout 's other eye . |
| 11 | Galvanised into action by the very idea , she rose abruptly to her feet , striving to keep her expression impassive as she glanced down into Candy 's surprised eyes . |
| 12 | This is the site of old mill ponds and the northernmost pond in particular is being filled in with builder 's rubble and other material . |
| 13 | Because in the past Dave we 've actually tried to tie it in with parent 's evening to sort of use it as a bit of a motivator to jeer the , gee them up before the end |
| 14 | Well , it looks like the only Leeds players in the US next year will be Kelly and maybe Beeney , along with ex 's like wor Jackie , Sheridan and Irwin . |
| 15 | ‘ Wan na Buy A Bridge ’ , an enigmatically titled Rough Trade compilation from the States , gets **** along with Yellow 's ‘ Solid Pleasure ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Wan na Buy A Bridge ’ , an enigmatically titled Rough Trade compilation from the States , gets **** along with Yellow 's ‘ Solid Pleasure ’ . |
| 17 | Since the new rule was rubber stamped last Monday , the blows raining down upon racing 's legislators in Portland Square , London , have come from fairly predictable sources . |
| 18 | As God drives back the waters so that they can cross in safety , and as he sends the wall of water rushing down upon Pharaoh 's forces , Israel learns the truth of Moses ' words : " The Lord will fight for you , and you have only to be still " ( 14:14 ) . |
| 19 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 20 | Dauntless leapt down from Contralto 's back . |
| 21 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 22 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 23 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 24 | When you have experienced past disappointments , hardship and disillusionment , you know you have been up and down on life 's waves . |
| 25 | Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her . |
| 26 | Sit down on daddy 's lap . |
| 27 | With the threat of war approaching , a Cadet Corps was formed and my Sunday school teacher provided the fifteen shillings necessary for the purchase of a second-hand uniform , which had to be cut down to boy 's size . |
| 28 | Sin therefore reduces God to man 's image , scales him down to man 's size and substitutes man 's view of God for God himself . |
| 29 | They had listed all of the places they would have to pass on their way to the Fire Court ; they had shown the tiny villages and the Wolfwood and the forks in the road and the long flat road down to Reflection 's country and the glittering decadent Fire Court . |
| 30 | Run along to Druid 's Bottom and take Miss Green a tin of biscuits . |