Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payton 's goal enough to take pressure off manager and team Dundee0 Celtic1 |
| 2 | She held Lucy 's hand still to light her cigarette . |
| 3 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 4 | Menem 's plan radically to restructure the economy provoked widespread looting of supermarkets in February and March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37501 ; for March , August and September austerity measures see pp. 37500 ; 37710 ] . |
| 5 | IT was Ballymoney who started the game in livelier fashion and with only ten minutes played Willie McNeill almost headed them into the lead when he made perfect contact with McKendry 's cross only to see his header strike the woodwork . |
| 6 | The therapist also understood the behaviour in terms of Pamela 's need both to show her parents how desperate she was feeling , and to try and change their behaviour towards her . |
| 7 | It was McLaren 's pleasure always to up the ante … |
| 8 | It was Doctor Teesdale 's job afterwards to make sure that the man was dead . |
| 9 | Ian found Williams 's assertion hard to believe but he pushed his chair back , conceding defeat . |
| 10 | HUNDREDS OF thousands of Scots face potentially crippling increases in their heating bills as a result of Norman Lamont 's decision yesterday to extend VAT to domestic fuel and power . |
| 11 | He enclosed the green that had been open to the villagers for years , and he bought up Hooper 's farm just to tack on his land , this land you 're living on . ’ |
| 12 | The subsequent ‘ sale ’ was apparently transacted using a transparency , which was not provided by Feigen 's gallery , and Hildenbrand 's ability actually to get hold of the painting later was , according to Feigen , ‘ something of a fluke . ’ |
| 13 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 14 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 15 | If you are playing Dwarf Wars , for example , the adventurers might reach Hargrim 's tomb only to find that it has been defiled and looted . |
| 16 | If someone is doubting the resurrection , it is irrelevant to assure him of Christ 's promise never to leave him — Christ never was with him if he has not risen . |
| 17 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 18 | Part of Neil MacDonald 's task in visiting Chile is to write a book about Oxfam 's work there to try to bring the problems home to the British public . |
| 19 | Iraq 's military might and Saddam 's willingness openly to challenge Israel appealed strongly to a PLO leadership deeply disillusioned with the faltering Middle East peace process . |
| 20 | IF 80 minutes of dynamic non-stop dance , combined with reverberant rock music seems like an irresistible combination , then head for Glasgow 's Tramway fast to catch the stunning new show from the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs — Chummlees and Fanshaws to you and me — as conjured out of choreographer Lea Anderson 's febrile imagination . |
| 21 | I ran all the way to Keith 's house just to find out it he 'd heard it . ’ |
| 22 | Six-year-old Laura Knights is to undergo pioneering keyhole surgery at Guy 's Hospital tomorrow to correct a ‘ kink ’ in one of her arteries . |
| 23 | ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into Dmitry 's music just to get his attention , and to be around him more ’ — Lady Miss Kier |
| 24 | It will soon take more than 2.5% of America 's GNP just to comply with existing rules . |
| 25 | Maybe that is why — unlike some drivers with a more refined sense of a balance sheet — it was Mario 's practice always to travel and live first class . |
| 26 | Now she wished fervently for an old-fashioned attendant to match the commissionaire downstairs and the man who had driven Luke 's car away to park it . |
| 27 | The prince was intent on establishing himself as king , and he appears to have chosen the period following Sigibert 's death deliberately to make his bid for recognition . |