Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although fewer people develop presenile Alzheimer 's disease , such patients are more likely to be known to the health service than older sufferers . |
| 2 | ‘ Nah listen 'ere — any more o' this an' you 'll all go back to Gaul an' eat bloody frogs ' legs — all right ? ’ |
| 3 | We sell each other 's garments and are quite happy to do so . |
| 4 | Stevenson is also anxious that we should not dismiss with contempt the more completely non-rational aspects of ethical discussion in which we affect each other 's ethical attitudes by the use of emotive language or influence each other 's emotions in other ways which do not require the mediation of rationally based changes in belief . |
| 5 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 6 | ‘ So no doubt you scratch each other 's backs . ’ |
| 7 | Some managers may delegate the task of in-bureau tutor to an experienced advice worker , in which case they partially lose that person 's services as an interviewer . |
| 8 | ‘ Clearly they hate each other 's company and they deal with it by looking away from each other . |
| 9 | They all hate each other 's guts . |
| 10 | The range of variables is enormous but in each case the staff will have to make the right decision and correctly judge each trainee 's competence . |
| 11 | I stress that King 's Cross would offer advantages even if no rail link were built . |
| 12 | The role of the NDO throughout this stage will be to monitor the progress of the unit writing , arrange for the meeting of writers to discuss common problems and review each other 's work , arrange for feedback from representatives of interested parties such as employers and college staff and to negotiate with professional bodies vis-a-vis recognition of the units and courses . |
| 13 | Life appeared to continue largely as normal in the Libyan capital , and the warning seemed to amount to no more than the routine diplomatic tit-for-tat when countries expel each other 's envoys . |
| 14 | He had little difficulty in persuading Mrs Pargeter to run into Mondano with him and cash some traveller 's cheques . |
| 15 | Or it could mean , I am in love and will present this love in such a way as to win advantage ( the next lines make clear Astrophil 's wish to obtain Stella 's ‘ grace ’ ( both spiritual blessing and sexual favours ) . |
| 16 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 17 | They never have the opportunity , with their son , to learn to make the transition to the valuable relationship of ‘ adult friends ’ and explore each other 's personalities in maturity , as they can so easily do with their married daughters . |
| 18 | I would n't want someone else , want another woman 's egg to have |
| 19 | Smell another dog 's shat . |
| 20 | CARTER USM celebrate this week 's release of their new LP ‘ 1992 The Love Album ’ with a mass balloon launch today . |
| 21 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The motorway is notorious for being prone to bad weather conditions like fog , but police say this morning 's crash was the result of bad driving . |
| 23 | The Result : A warm , natural looking even colour and cut which rally suited Sarah 's face shape and skin tones . |
| 24 | Erm , I would like to propose , I 'm not sure correct form , that we minute this council 's support and appreciation for the work of the county archivist , rather than just note the report . |
| 25 | British rulers have made collections of books down the ages , and the library portraits of the English kings Henry VII ( 1485–1509 ) , Henry VIII ( 1509–1547 ) and Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558–1603 ) acknowledge these monarchs ' contributions to the sixteenth-century Renaissance of learning in England . |
| 26 | Shell International petroleum 's Head of Group Recruitment , Adrian Loader , wrote that : ‘ The Shell Group very rarely uses headhunters to recruit and the exceptions are limited to quite specific cases . |
| 27 | Some organisations interview all candidates ' wives early in the selection process ; others invite only the wives of short-listed candidates into interview ; a few feel it unreasonable to call into question the intentions of potential expatriates ' wives . |
| 28 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 29 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 30 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |