Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in the second section asked about teachers ' general perceptions of school self-evaluation and were virtually identical to those asked earlier in Solihull ( Turner and Clift , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 3 | Since ITV had the TV monopoly of advertising and ‘ editorializing ’ was not allowed , few anxieties surfaced about advertisers ' influence on programmes . |
| 4 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
| 5 | Even in cases where teachers clearly disagreed with advisers ' recommendations , they had at least been forced to reconsider their existing practices . |
| 6 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 7 | The kinds of difficulties that we encountered in Poulantzas ' work continually crop up , and the tacit use of counterfactuals which rely on individualist premises is a perennial stumbling block . |
| 8 | Often the furore stemmed from audiences ' unease at being plugged into a musical idiom shorn of familiar signposts . |
| 9 | Early in Chapter One I referred to Marthinus ' expression of regret that education persisted in training pupils to see a stone as a specimen and never for itself , to see the handler of a stone as a classifier of specimens and not as important in himself . |
| 10 | But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool . |
| 11 | They stopped outside Lyons ' tea house where there was a selection of cakes in the window . |
| 12 | Doubt flickered across Harris ' face for the first time . |
| 13 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 14 | Hankin appealed for fans ' patience and encouragement at a critical stage of the season . |
| 15 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |
| 16 | I emerged from the bathroom a half an hour later in a cloud of Amplex Aerosol avalanched in Boots ' 365 Talcum . |
| 17 | He rose pensively , and a little unsteadily , from the table and disappeared out of sight behind the woven rush lampshade , the same tall shadow she recalled from Mills ' flat . |
| 18 | The final accolade came in Barnes ' closing speech , when he announced that never in his experience , ‘ and I think rarely if ever in anybody 's experience , has a local group without legal representation appeared and presented their case so consistently over an enormously long inquiry such as this . ’ |
| 19 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |
| 20 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 21 | The second piece of silliness came from Dixons ' Mr Kalms . |
| 22 | The increasing demand for medical care on the part of the middle classes combined with a growing perception of medical attention as a status symbol by those below , also added to doctors ' social power . |
| 23 | When the news of Jones ' work first came to Pons ' attention late in 1988 , the 4 mm diameter rod was not yet charged and ready for test , nor were all rods giving heat — the chemists referred to these rods as being ‘ dead ’ . |
| 24 | The fault came to Rangers ' attention when they were forced to postpone a Premier Division game with Dundee United at Ibrox in December because of a fractured drainage pipe . |
| 25 | Money-lenders came to borrowers ' houses , not vice versa . |
| 26 | Later Friedman ( 1975 ) shifted position somewhat in that he allowed for employers ' mistakes concerning the behaviour of the real wage rate : the ex post real wage need never deviate from its market clearing value for fluctuations in the level of employment around its natural value to occur . |
| 27 | They turned into Liveseys ' yard , and went up to the office . |
| 28 | Before Mick though let's just remind you of what happened in Notts ' first match in group A when they took on at Lane . |
| 29 | The whole tie turned from Leeds ' grasp in that fateful moment the Frenchman will want to forget . |
| 30 | Marvellous similes flowed from journalists ' pens . |