Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he played gently enough not to make the hammers of Stein 's pianos bounce up and hit the strings again . |
| 2 | Environmentalist 's killers break out |
| 3 | And I said he finally managed to pluck the guts up to tell me last , plucked the courage up to tell me last night and Andy 's eyes light up and I just said erm and I said |
| 4 | Not all Sue 's students go on to start up their own enterprise , but that does n't worry her . |
| 5 | Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group . |
| 6 | RICHARD 's eyes roll up in his head and he passes out . |
| 7 | It depends on how your timetables work out and er , how the available tutors ' timetables work out . |
| 8 | At the start of take-off the stick is held fully back so that , as the aircraft accelerates , the floats ' bow-waves build up to lift their fronts . |
| 9 | Long extracts from the inspectors ' reports conjure up the smells of the 17th century in sickening detail : the open graves , the streets piled high with faeces , the butcher 's shop ‘ full of all kinds of filth , excrement , guts and other muck ’ , and so on . |
| 10 | Erm , it should n't , it should be noted that the er land owners are prepared to pay for a fairly expensive footbridge on their land to cure the problem and er I hope that this Council 's initiatives follow through and a twenty five year old problem gets cured . |
| 11 | England 's champs set out on the glory trail with a warning to keep their cool |
| 12 | The word ‘ fatuous ’ reminds us of the title , meaning idiotic — Owen then asks the reader , why did the sun 's rays labour over waking up earth ? |
| 13 | The sun 's rays dry up the moisture which amphibians , such as frogs , toads and newts , need . |
| 14 | Drug baron 's limousines go up in smoke |
| 15 | The Museum 's displays take up the story of Britain 's canals in 1793 — the height of canal mania — the year when more proposals for the building of canals were put before Parliament than ever before . |
| 16 | When governments refuse to legislate , as in Britain , sport 's organisers dream up complicated schemes to prevent touting . |
| 17 | Laverne 's arms whirl around like a kid 's mimicking a helicopter on a summer 's day . |
| 18 | A. T. The worst part of the job was after passing the Sergeant 's exam and waiting for twelve to thirteen years to get promoted — you 'd have the Chief Constable 's Orders come out and you 'd see people who had passed years after you being promoted and you 'd think that I 'll do my thirty years like this . |
| 19 | I 've sent orders for the gates to be watched while Simon 's men round up the rest . ’ |
| 20 | And out at sea the same companies ' trawlers suck up their catches through giant vacuum pipes … with little thought to the future of the region 's fish stocks . |
| 21 | However , as Mr Fontana points out , singers ' stipends make up only 19% of opera-house budgets . |
| 22 | Polite and featherlight , this is the record you can take home and make your parents ' goes tap along to . |
| 23 | As reported in the October issue of Wood News , TESL 's operations revolve around a system called MERCAD [ Measurements Electronically Recorded Computer Automated Draughting ] . |
| 24 | Doe 's forces put up stiffer resistance to the rebel groupings than was expected , and were able to hold the area of Monrovia around the heavily fortified executive mansion . |
| 25 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 26 | Subject to the importance of the property assets as part of the business acquisition , it is advisable that the purchaser 's solicitors carry out a full investigation of title to establish that the purchaser will acquire the property assets free from any adverse encumbrances , obligations or restrictions . |
| 27 | Five seconds later , the weapon 's fins nip out . |
| 28 | During the final stages of an attack the weapon 's sensors lock on to the target ship 's radar or sonar signals and the Telemine homes in on them . |
| 29 | At a temperature of 73–74°F John 's fish 's eggs hatch in about 2½–3 days , but the fry are another day or so before becoming free-swimming . |
| 30 | I could almost hear Werewolf 's eyebrows go up as I counted out the cash . |