Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you 'll owe me for six months ' work . ’ |
| 2 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 3 | Visit them for delightful bridesmaids ' clothes , too . |
| 4 | Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake . |
| 5 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 6 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 7 | At the core of the treaty was a detailed procedure for " challenge inspections " , under which at 108 hours ' notice international inspectors could investigate sites suspected of being used for making or storing chemical weapons . |
| 8 | Instead , their own difficult first album is one extra twist of its theme , three songs and a few warped guitars overdubs short of a classic which by local debutants ' terms is almost an unprecedented if also an easy success . |
| 9 | Well I 'm coming back to see you in two weeks ' time so could I maybe get the information off you then ? |
| 10 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
| 11 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 12 | After all , there are few areas of human experience that have not been written about , and you can experience your chosen one through other writers ' words just as well , perhaps even in some ways actually better , than through your own eyes . |
| 13 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 14 | A further interesting finding was that one in three chairmen , one in nine employers ' representatives and one in seven employees ' representatives were also justices of the peace or held similar ‘ judicial or semi-judicial office ’ such as that of coroner . |
| 15 | An audit of prescribing of gentamicin in Leicester showed that this approach considerably increased the number of gentamicin concentration that were within the therapeutic range when measured after one to two days ' treatment . |
| 16 | Many mortgages have costly redemption fees — which usually cost you the equivalent of one to three months ' mortgage payments . |
| 17 | The military prosecutor had applied for nine death sentences , but when the sentences were announced on Aug. 30 five men were acquitted , 11 received sentences ranging from one to 20 years ' imprisonment , and the group 's leader Habib Lessoued received life imprisonment . |
| 18 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 19 | The Mercedes which had been promised to take them to All Saints ' Church , Deganwy , for the wedding on Saturday was sold . |
| 20 | She put her glasses back on and the lashes , horrifically magnified through the lenses , curled back at her like gigantic spiders ' legs . |
| 21 | In the days preceding laying , when the female can be fertilised , the male remains close to his partner , guarding her from other males ' attempts to mate surreptitiously . |
| 22 | She should look after herself , as well , and he would see her in five years ' time . |
| 23 | The farm was her prison until her inheritance from her father 's estate freed her in three years ' time . |
| 24 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
| 25 | On 11 June 1992 the husband was arrested at the wife 's house and on 12 June Judge Woodford , finding him guilty of breaches of the injunctions of 12 September 1991 and 12 May 1992 , sentenced him to eight months ' imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 26 | Sex offender Karl Gambrill escaped a prison term for attempted intercourse on the little girl when Judge Ian Starforth Hill , QC , sentenced him to two years ' probation at Winchester Crown Court for attempted unlawful intercourse . |
| 27 | In March 1988 the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to 18 years ' imprisonment , upheld in May 1989 by the Supreme Court . |
| 28 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 29 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 30 | Placing him on three years ' probation , Mr Justice Hodgson said : ‘ This is a tragic case . |