Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Write before letter-leprosy ( hideous disease ) rids you of your fingers ' Cathy XXX . |
2 | With a neat and elegant sideways kick of her high-heeled white sandal , she closed the door behind her and sat herself down opposite me in my visitors ' chair . |
3 | Make invitations in the shape of soccer balls and get your children to colour them in their teams ' favourite colours . |
4 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
5 | It would delight me to be able to buy you presents ; to take you with me to my friends ' houses , to the theatre , to Biarritz , to Cannes — wherever it pleased you to go . ’ |
6 | Like many supposed puppets , Mr Castro learnt to tug on the strings that tied him to his masters ' hands . |
7 | Fears of a ‘ credit crunch ’ have prompted policy changes at the Federal Reserve in recent months : the Fed has cut its benchmark interest rate four times and , a bolder move , has reduced the amount of reserves that banks are obliged to hold with it against their customers ' deposits . |
8 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
9 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
10 | She did n't like me wearing T-shirts with ‘ Death From Above ’ emblazoned on them at her friends ' parties in Wimbledon . |
11 | Net payments are then made direct by us to your employees ' or pensioners ' bank or building society accounts . |