Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the possible exception of grant-maintained status , for which I personally find it very difficult to see any merit or justification , the other provisions with potential threat for children with special needs ( open enrolment and local financial management ) are for me rather like the curate 's egg . |
| 2 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 3 | Video is a good medium with which to move them away from the beginner 's preoccupation with individual words to an attempt to follow the general drift of a message . |
| 4 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 5 | For psychology , the irrationality , affectivity and sociability which it attributes to women link them to the unscientific uncertainties of subjectivity , and put them slightly outside the discipline 's proper field . |
| 6 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ … so please join me now for a minute 's silence in memory of Dominic Wetherby . |
| 8 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 9 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 10 | Art college taught her much about an artist 's social responsibilities , but disappointingly little about the use of materials in painting , and how to earn a living as an artist . |
| 11 | Art college taught her much about an artist 's social responsibilities , but disappointingly little about the use of materials in painting , and how to earn a living as an artist . |
| 12 | It featured a Carolyn no less real than herself : her double , her living image , separated from her only by a second 's timing in a rainsoaked dash across Leap Lane . |
| 13 | And she 'd to go to , to get her into the pony and cart and get her away to the doctor 's and get it stitched and , oh boy . |
| 14 | Two days after the two men returned from Germany , the SS officer pulled her aside in the officers ' mess . |
| 15 | The back condition which troubled him sorely during the club 's invaluable spring tour of Zimbabwe , returned with a vengeance and he was obliged to miss some cricket while under constant treatment . |
| 16 | Agrippa excused himself whilst Catesby took Benjamin and me across to the Queen 's spacious chamber on the second floor of the Tower just next to St Stephen 's Chapel . |
| 17 | He picked up the reins in a temper and slapped them hard across the horse 's back . |
| 18 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 19 | ‘ I have played against them twice in the President 's Trophy and they beat us twice fairly and squarely . |
| 20 | I see it rather as an actor 's bag of tricks , and not a very apposite one for the role . |
| 21 | From time to time she crossed the room , soaked a flannel in the tepid water of a basin , and pressed it gently against the Collector 's swollen face . |
| 22 | If by one careless word now I backed up the rumours Aline was bound to be spreading at night , by tomorrow morning Tom Lofthouse , a chatty lad , would have it all round the Doctors ' House . |
| 23 | As Bernice watched , horrified , Bishop produced a large handgun from beneath his robes and aimed it squarely at the Doctor 's head . |
| 24 | With MDI the skilled craftsman operating this machine would be able to write his own program to control the machine and enter it directly into the machine 's computer . |
| 25 | The drug also finds it way to the mother 's milk and so could exert its effects on newborn children . |
| 26 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 27 | You could then lean back and pick up the front foot , thrusting it straight into the opponent 's solar plexus . |
| 28 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 29 | You might as well hear it straight from the horse 's mouth . ’ |
| 30 | ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) In part two of Central News , we 'll be getting it straight from the horse 's mouth . |