Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 2 | We perhaps had a works ' er we had to have a works ' holiday yeah . |
| 3 | If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks . |
| 4 | They have already appointed a gates ' superintendent for this year to ensure no one slips through the entrances without paying . |
| 5 | Back in England , he 's already planning an actors ' agency and workshops , while his company performs two modern American plays , Hello Out There and PVT Wars , in theatres around the country this spring . |
| 6 | Over the years , the VMA gradually became a students ' association and at the first general meeting of its 45th session , on 19 October 1880 , John H. Steel , the secretary and librarian , announced ‘ the Veterinary Medical Association , while having wide sympathies with its members who have become qualified practitioners , is now the Students ’ Society of the largest British Veterinary School' . |
| 7 | Still coaching a boys ' football team , and taking immense pride in a four-year-old grandson who is already demonstrating an enviable left-handed off-drive , he continues to look to the future . |
| 8 | The purchasers usually form an owners ' association and subcontract that to a management company . |
| 9 | ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall . |
| 10 | Oxford University also has a womens ' basketball team . |
| 11 | She was later to run a ladies ' outfitters in nearby Gorleston , on the Suffolk coast . |
| 12 | The government also accepted a Lords ' amendment specifying special needs as a factor that may bc taken into account in the resource allocation formula . |
| 13 | The Second Division outfit , who had a magnificent 18–14 win at Salford , now face a Saints ' side lying third in the Stones Bitter Championship . |
| 14 | The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel . |
| 15 | Those who wish to apply for admission to these degrees should possess at least an upper second class honours degree or its equivalent and may well have a Masters ' degree . |
| 16 | In about 1813–14 he organized in Bermondsey a society of workmen which virtually constituted a Mechanics ' Institute , almost ten years before those established by Leonard Horner [ q.v. ] |
| 17 | ‘ the mother of seven extremely fine girls all unmarried ’ who , perturbed by the bachelor curate 's approval of the Miss Brown 's child 's examination society , hastily forms a ladies ' Bible and Prayer-book Distribution Society ( ‘ treasurer , auditors and secretary , the Misses Johnson Parker ’ ) . |
| 18 | The Region also recently sponsored a parents ' evening at Broughton High School , which provided information to around 150 parents on provision including general SVQs and National Certificate Module Clusters . |
| 19 | One time my friend and I accidentally kicked a bees ' nest , a small , round ball hidden behind the leaves some 10cm above the ground . |