Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 2 | On 24 June she wrote her final thank you to the architect , asking him to accept a signed photograph of herself ‘ in remembrance of the trouble you have taken concerning my beautiful Dolls ' House ’ . |
| 3 | My fifteen miles ' walk had whetted my appetite , and therefore I looked with no angry gaze on Ranza Inn , and , despite the large company of tourists airing themselves outside , I made inquiries for breakfast , and was told it would not be ready for an hour ( it was now nine o'clock ) . |
| 4 | I remember quite a number of the items from my first Boys ' School Concert , one was the carol , ‘ Away in a Manger ’ , sung by Henry Musselwhite . |
| 5 | I was told there was n't one but was invited onto the executive where I could form my own women 's group . |
| 6 | I am aware that the Institute is making efforts to bring about change , but I can not but help feel that my and my fellow graduates ' achievement is somewhat devalued by the continued willingness of the Institute to adopt almost as many new members as it can . |
| 7 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 8 | How can I safely protect my young children 's skin from the sun when on holiday ? |
| 9 | In my paternal grandparents ' house , things were ordered differently . |
| 10 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 11 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 12 | One nanny was sacked on the spot when Diana 's mother discovered that her employee was lacing her elder daughters ' food with laxatives as a punishment . |
| 13 | RANGERS will play their European Champions ' Cup tie with CSKA Moscow at Santander in northern Spain on December 9 . |
| 14 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 15 | Her Working Women 's College opened in Queen Square , Bloomsbury , in 1864 , offering tuition in a wide range of subjects at very low fees . |
| 16 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 17 | Inspired by their octogenarian leaders ' nostalgia , fashion designers are promising a return to the austere clothing of the 1950s , now hailed as the high-water mark of the revolutionary tradition of ‘ bitter struggle and hard living ’ . |
| 18 | Through an explosive expansion , especially in southern Spain , of its rural labourers ' section , the FNTT ( National Landworkers Federation ) , the UGT was suddenly transformed from an organization consisting primarily of skilled urban workers into one decisively influenced by the worst-off members of the agricultural labour force . |
| 19 | Far from experiencing simple gratitude , such children will most likely feel terribly torn and anxious when faced with their foster parents ' offer of affection . |
| 20 | At a time when the company was obliged to draw on its total shareholders ' equity to pay its ( reduced ) dividend , the installation of a new mainframe computer system linked to New York ( and horribly slow to use according to London experts ) accounted for a sizeable percentage of last year 's $7 million auction operating costs . |
| 21 | It was a great relief when she arrived at Lomond View to discover that the only person there was Inge , looking rosy-cheeked and happy after her few days ' holiday . |
| 22 | Bawden lived in that house for 30 years , and no one who went there could forget its atmosphere , partly created by its English artists ' eccentricity of decor . |
| 23 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 24 | Cheering them off on their 230 miles ' journey was TV 's ‘ Mr Blobby ’ and Mr John Lambeth , secretary and chief executive of LVFS . |
| 25 | The familiarity of their London setting accounted , perhaps , both for their easy assimilation into the literary world and for their contemporary readers ' lack of genuine interest in the more esoteric themes they raise . |
| 26 | Cinewomen in Norwich began their annual women 's film festival : in independent cinemas and community centres , projects like Women 's Media Resource Project established regular slots for exhibiting women 's work in both film and video . |
| 27 | Her second children 's book , Carrots — Just a Little Boy ( 1876 ) , for instance , which depicted her own family and included an irascible father , was written with great sympathy from the point of view of a six-year-old . |
| 28 | Many of the team 's functions are carried out through its individual members ' work , either in the performance of their county roles ( for example as Inspector or PAL:YPE ) or in their roles as link persons . |
| 29 | For example , in both West Germany and Britain in the 1980s conservative governments attempted to ‘ catch up ’ on introducing new technologies and new media as an antidote — as they saw it — to their socialist predecessors ' delaying tactics . |
| 30 | For a company which in its 90 years ' existence has made its share of bad decisions , this may rank as the worst of them all . |