Example sentences of "lovers ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through lovers ' brains , and then they dream of love ; |
| 2 | Like dissolves , slow motion can be useful for scenes of sexual love or simply for lovers ' meetings — a usage now long derided , though , and so no longer even parodied , after its long descent through so many TV commercials . |
| 3 | Although every moment of the lovers ' experience is drenched in imagery , there is still a fine feeling of reality about the characters which gives them bone and muscle . |
| 4 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 5 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 6 | Last hours of murdered lovers ' lane couple could yield clue . |
| 7 | Her parents Robert and Carol joined in the hunt , which ended on Boxing Day when a man walking his dog in a nearby lovers ' lane found Johanna 's black trainers in a hedge . |
| 8 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 9 | Yesterday Johanna 's ex-boyfriend Ryan Firman , 17 , visited the isolated lovers ' lane where her body was found on Boxing Day . |
| 10 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 11 | Mr Golyadkin 's response to the elopement letter was a two-in-one attempt to assume a chivalric role and reach a lovers ' destination . |
| 12 | Like a world war beginning from a lovers ' quarrel |
| 13 | Finally , we thought it might have been a lovers ' quarrel , but now I 'm not sure … " |
| 14 | On the pavement outside , two teenagers were having a lovers ' quarrel . |
| 15 | ‘ A lovers ' tiff , ’ Violet said . |
| 16 | THREE months after their wedding on July 23 , 1986 at Westminster Abbey , Andrew and Fergie had a very public lovers ' tiff on a visit to open a flood barrier in Holland . |
| 17 | The Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) claimed on Feb. 5 that a unit from its Katibat Ushshaq al-Shahadah ( Martyrdom Lovers ' Battalion ) had carried out the attack . |
| 18 | The lovers ' attempts to escape are frustrated , but the opera ends happily since the Pasha decides that magnanimity is the best course and releases all of them . |
| 19 | A complicity indistinguishable from lovers ' happiness ran through the two of them , not localized but suffused through their frames , like alcohol after exercise . |
| 20 | They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last . |
| 21 | The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village . |
| 22 | Rather it is how those results are achieved , and the series of discomfitures that are a consequence of Absolon 's intrusion and creation of an antitype to the cosy lovers ' triangle in the carpenter 's house . |
| 23 | TWO young sisters died after petrol was poured through a letterbox and set alight during a lovers ' row . |
| 24 | Wednesday , July 3 , 10 am ; Milenecka VII ( Lovers ' Route HVS 5b ) , Milenci ( Lovers ' Tower ) , Adrspach . |
| 25 | Milenci ( Lovers ' Tower ) , Milenecka ( Lovers ' Route ) , V11 ( HVS 5b ) , for the deranged only . |
| 26 | Trevor Bailey will receive the Wombwell Cricket Lovers ' Society 's ‘ Denzil Batchelor Memorial Award ’ for services to English cricket at a special dinner to be held in his honour on November 7 . |
| 27 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 28 | It was the tail-end of the Seventies when a frighteningly young Noel McKoy and some schoolmates formed the Albians and recorded the all-time classic lovers ' rock tune ‘ Princess ’ . |
| 29 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 30 | Suicide followed lovers ' dispute |