Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nah listen 'ere — any more o' this an' you 'll all go back to Gaul an' eat bloody frogs ' legs — all right ? ’ |
| 2 | British rulers have made collections of books down the ages , and the library portraits of the English kings Henry VII ( 1485–1509 ) , Henry VIII ( 1509–1547 ) and Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558–1603 ) acknowledge these monarchs ' contributions to the sixteenth-century Renaissance of learning in England . |
| 3 | Some organisations interview all candidates ' wives early in the selection process ; others invite only the wives of short-listed candidates into interview ; a few feel it unreasonable to call into question the intentions of potential expatriates ' wives . |
| 4 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 5 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 6 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 7 | Citibank Mortgage will pay stamp duty up to a maximum of £400 and provide two years ' free unemployment cover . |
| 8 | However , one can say that a logically inconsistent set of attitudes bears the inevitable seeds of emotional disharmony within the individual and is likely to make effective action impossible by promoting patterns of behaviour which prevent each others ' successful issue . |
| 9 | Managers gauge each others ' prestige by comparing the sizes of their BMWs . |
| 10 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 11 | These freight forwarders frequently act either as carriers in their own right when they consolidate multiple shippers ' cargo and hire space on the vessel or vessels involved in the maritime leg of the journey . |
| 12 | The MoD denies cash savings caused the move — stressing that the bands charge full Musicians ' Union rates when playing at outside venues and that the money each brings in is placed in a national pot . |
| 13 | Tables II and III show general practitioners ' and non-medical staff 's assessment of the impact of fundholding on their relationships and roles . |
| 14 | take steps to adjust operational and strategic plans learn from and match other employers ' tactics |
| 15 | Indeed the gentry prefer to leave business to the professionals ( 'those damn usurers ' ) and concentrate on the arts and natural sciences , religious speculation and , of course , a little hunting . |
| 16 | Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well . |
| 17 | He has an understanding with his wife that weekends are sacrosanct and the couple always enjoy six weeks ' holiday together every year . |
| 18 | In the case of the wrongful deportation of any asylum seeker , he admitted that he was consulted , but he hides behind the excuse that he did no more than accept civil servants ' advice . |
| 19 | The reason becomes clear when we consider these devices ' search spaces for learning . |
| 20 | Disclose any shareholders ' waiver of dividends . |
| 21 | The TCCB meet two weeks ' after today 's final to decide on what further punishment can be meted out to Lamb on top of a two-match ban and threat of expulsion from the England dressing-room . |
| 22 | On the reverse , less positive side , the principle of inverse irreversibility explains the phenomenon we observe when scientists and other professional experts refuse to accept or even consider other scientists ' , other experts ' objectively-arrived-at truths when these tend to undermine or place in disrepute their own objectively arrived-at truths . |
| 23 | For instance , he examines the costs and benefits of creching to the ducklings , to the parents who lost offspring to the common pool and to the recipient adults who rear other birds ' young . |
| 24 | They have dark skin , long noses and wear shabby farmers ' smocks . |
| 25 | It seems that in some cases the answer is yes , even though no characteristic elements of segmental phonology have been found which distinguish black Londoners ' speech from that of other Londoners . |
| 26 | The two central , baggy-suited dancers , Lynne Bristow and William Trevitt , either mirror each others ' movements ( the old man perhaps communing with his diary ) or else dance as a couple ( the man reliving past relationships ) . |
| 27 | ( For example Manu the lawgiver recommended to Hindu society more than twelve centuries ago that ‘ the chief function of a woman is to give birth , nurse those who are born and attend daily duties ' or ‘ A girl must be married before she attains puberty and after she is married she must be kept busy looking after elders , cooking , cleaning , keeping accounts and saving money and of course doing Dharma ) . |
| 28 | These are piers built out over the harbour , and indicate old merchants ' houses , where ships could unload directly into the premises . |
| 29 | In evidence before the Committee on Physical Deterioration , Dr T. F. Young from Liverpool described how , particularly at the point when they started work , young people ‘ throw off all parental authority … get to congregating about the street corners at night … become what we call ‘ corner boys ’ ’ , and get drunken habits ' . |
| 30 | As ye know , most doctors in the islands get six months ' leave every three years , and I volunteered to take one man 's place soon after I had qualified . |