Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can see right through Doddie 's head now . |
| 2 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 3 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 4 | I feel a certain sympathy for their wallflower purity , none for their legislators ' regard for the morals of others , and most for Mapplethorpe 's prophylaxis . |
| 5 | It fitted everything Tony insists is the East 17 mould , a ‘ real ’ , personalised romp lurking somewhere between EMF 's sense of fun(k) and the communal catastrophe of Flowered Up . |
| 6 | Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere . |
| 7 | Perhaps somewhere between Goebel 's string texture on period instruments and the Amsterdam Bach Soloists ' mixed strings and woodwinds using modern instruments . |
| 8 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 9 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 10 | The mills are in Heaton Road , and the boilerhouse chimney , 255 feet high , is in the style of a Venetian campanile and is known locally as Lister 's Pride . |
| 11 | It was known locally as Shane 's Castle , Shane presumably being the toll-house keeper . |
| 12 | The business carried on , despite the 1932 fire , until 1935 , when it changed hands , becoming the Stroud Flock Company and later known locally as Lipsey 's Flock Mill . |
| 13 | And he talked effectively about Britain 's place in Europe and the world . |
| 14 | The task now imposed on everyone , and especially those preparing to spend the weekend in Strasbourg , is to think big and flexibly about Europe 's future . |
| 15 | So , I do get a bit ac , I mean , th there 's , there 's one young girl in the class and , we were on about women 's role in society and going on about third world woman , but even western woman have their position , you know , she does the housework |
| 16 | Pollitt thundered on about Italy 's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned . |
| 17 | Whooshing on about David 's beauty and elegance on the top layer , she carves her and her disciples up a treat underneath . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 21 | But they have said little about law 's part in the mosaic . |
| 22 | The following days papers contained surprisingly little about Puddephat 's disappearance . |
| 23 | Some of Jacqui 's clothes bore the label ‘ Designed by Jacqui Smale for Laura Ashley ’ and Veronica Papworth , fashion editor of the Sunday Express , had written flatteringly about Jacqui 's work . |
| 24 | This angry and often lonely young man believes the one-bouncer rule was introduced expressly for Hick 's benefit . |
| 25 | Another medium ( whose West Midlands accent made ‘ yappy little dog ’ sound like ‘ yuppie little dog ’ ) guessed it right about Tom 's father and uncle 's great rivalry in gardening , especially who grew the best chrysanthemums ! |
| 26 | He became a pupil in London of John Nash [ q.v. ] , and it was presumably through Nash 's connection with south Wales that in 1801 he was employed to design a small public building in Carmarthen . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | We 'll probably have something on for Mother 's day . |
| 29 | This could suggest a domestic crisis , for the Chronicle records immediately after that the aetheling , Ealdberht , whom Ine had exiled , went into Surrey and Sussex and it is not inconceivable that Ealdberht was either Ine 's son or the son of his brother , Ingild , who died in 718 , seeking recognition perhaps as Ine 's heir . |
| 30 | This system is good enough for Britain 's private schools ; why is it not good enough for Britain 's state schools too ? |