Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Doing up an 18th-century house is small beer compared to the Stewarts ' next project . |
| 32 | Boz called at the Hankses ' cottage early the next morning . |
| 33 | But he admitted to being confused about the Serbs ' current aims . |
| 34 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 35 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 36 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 37 | With their two very different viewpoints — one the angst-struck French intellectual , the other the ex-con and hard-nosed Venetian man of action — Bernier and Manucci colour in the gilded outlines provided by the Mughals ' own court chronicles and their miniature paintings . |
| 38 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 39 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 40 | Even the encouragement given to the Ceauşescus ' globe-trotting by Robert Mugabe was pretty much a case of like endorsing like . |
| 41 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 42 | T&M 's new ‘ Bright Eyes ’ , is yellow with a red lip , also strongly reminiscent of the flower illustrated in the Suttons ' catalogue of 100 years ago . |
| 43 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 44 | The raiders struck at the Bayles ' home , Newsham House , in the village of Little Newsham , near Barnard Castle , Teesside Crown Court heard . |
| 45 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 46 | Grandmother Margot 's pacemaker explodes in the crematorium oven , a minor atomic blast in a country trying to go non-nuclear ; a local urchin loses an eye in a fight at the cousin Urvill 's restored castle ( and has it replaced with an artificial one cast at the McHoans ' Gallansch glass works ) ; Rory and brother-in-law Fergus pass a nightmare night in a hill-top bothy with cannabis , whisky , a rat , two guns and one shattering revelation as props . |
| 47 | Beginning in 1923 , when Vita and her husband ( Sir ) Harold Nicolson [ q.v. ] came to stay at the Villa Medici , the affair lasted into 1925 and was followed by the Scotts ' divorce in 1927 . |
| 48 | A proposal by brewery giants , Guinness , to put up the price of the pint by 2p has been opposed by the Vintners ' Federation of Ireland , which represents 6,000 publicans outside the Dublin area . |
| 49 | Pike 's face was now pressed firmly into what was left of the Quigleys ' wallpaper . |
| 50 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
| 51 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 52 | At the very least , we need to consider variations according to social class as Table 1 ( taken from the Newsons ' study of child-rearing practice published in 1963 ) demonstrates . |
| 53 | In battle they believe so strongly in the power of the Orc gods Gork and Mork to protect them that enemy arrows and swords blows really can be deflected by the Orcs ' aura of self-generated arcane power . |
| 54 | It is , however , recognised that prior to the introduction of any new Religious Education course into a Catholic School approval must be sought and obtained from the Bishops ' Conference , and , subsequently , from the Diocesan Religious Education Advisorate . |
| 55 | Funding for supply cover is available within the DES grants to LEAs for INSET , but in every case the demand for placements has outstripped the funds available , particularly given the competing demands that have existed within the LEAs ' in-service programmes . |
| 56 | The era was further epitomized by the Beatles ' number one hit at the start of the year , ‘ Day Tripper ’ , and the Rolling Stones ' new album , Aftermath . |
| 57 | I 'd been too diverted by the Unwins ' rejoicings . |
| 58 | Her spite is aroused by the Gattletons ' ostentatious amateur theatricals , and she successfully sets herself to sabotage the proceedings ; her daughter Emma . |
| 59 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 60 | And what excuse is given by the Shipowners ' Federation ? |