Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 2 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 3 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 4 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 5 | Then he made 38 runs in good time as Northern cashed in against the champions ' depleted bowling resources . |
| 6 | This required the ATB staff to have a good knowledge of the family situations of wives attending courses and to arrange course times that fitted in with the families ' needs and routines . |
| 7 | I now felt far more confident and comfortable knowing that I could refuse to go along with the guards ' antics if they really upset me . |
| 8 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 9 | Proud parents Olwyn and Brian Linighan will be coming from home town Hartlepool for the big match along with the brothers ' 12-year-old sister Gemma . |
| 10 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 11 | On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt . |
| 12 | Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier . |
| 13 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
| 14 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 15 | The sun was high in the sky and beating down on the mourners ' heads . |
| 16 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 17 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 18 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 19 | Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf . |
| 20 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 21 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 22 | It 's all down to the Trees ' happy marriage of some notable individual virtuosity to a clear shared vision of where his multi-layered trip is headed . |
| 23 | Then Mellor carted his wife and young sons down to the Halls ' home in Upper Beeding , Sussex , for a stage-managed ‘ happy families ’ photo-call . |
| 24 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 25 | Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept . |
| 26 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 27 | While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life . |
| 28 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |
| 29 | Even Egyptians , whose soldiers may well be sent in on the allies ' side , hate the spectacle of a fellow Muslim , a defier of Zionists , being shot up by America 's whizz-bang weaponry . |
| 30 | If not , then where are our authorities in all this in respecting the petitioners ' wishes ? |