Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international community 's response took various forms . |
| 2 | If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect . |
| 3 | Dilwyn Bowles 's hernia appeared last September after he fell over a kitchen chair . |
| 4 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 5 | The prosecution 's case lasted five months , after which the jury was sent away for 75 days , partly for a holiday and partly while the judge heard legal arguments . |
| 6 | Rachel 's skin turned dusky gold . |
| 7 | Mrs Mary Dowson , prosecuting for Middlesborugh Borough Council , said last October 's inspection revealed dirty walls , floors and ceilings and corroded equipment . |
| 8 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 9 | The GMB union claimed today the industrial tribunal 's decision revealed double standards . |
| 10 | Tremayne 's vet took small blood samples of all the stable 's runners prior to their last training gallop before they raced , the resulting detailed analysis being able to reveal a whole host of things from a raised lymphocyte count to excreted enzymes due to muscle damage . |
| 11 | Laboratory analysis for the presence of various metals was not routinely carried out , however , until a couple of years ago , when it was suddenly discovered that McDonald 's effluent contained 256 p.p.m. of zinc , a by-product of the glazing process . |
| 12 | The President 's cabin lay three miles into the reserve , four miles to the north and a good eight hundred feet above the lodge , and divided from it by a small tributary of the Makaa so Trent could expect no help there even if the owner was in residence . |
| 13 | Helping punters outwit the bookies is something that gives Brittain real pleasure and he recalls with pride how an acquaintance made an exceptionally nice profit when the trainer 's Terimon took second place to Nashwan in this year 's Derby . |
| 14 | A moment 's hesitation allowed another kit to dash in to steal the prize . |
| 15 | Norton 's Coin won four point-to-points out of ten runs over three seasons and then developed into a good chaser : by the time of his Gold Cup attempt he had won four of his fourteen races under Rules , including a valuable chase at Cheltenham the previous April . |
| 16 | Mary 's ex-husband said last night : ‘ I think he is a very foolish man . |
| 17 | Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back . |
| 18 | Coun Carr said the council 's budget had all-party support and the fact that it had been ignored by Mr Howard showed the futility of an appeal . |
| 19 | In early February 1990 Croatia 's parliament endorsed 10 amendments allowing multiparty and secret elections and broader political reform . |
| 20 | The Nicholson 's computer recorded 25 knots across the deck , and offered advice about what to do with it . |
| 21 | In May last year , Mr Gorbachev 's cable arrived several minutes before Karoly Grosz 's election to the leadership was announced . |
| 22 | They are both deeply influenced by the theology of the great St Augustine of Hippo ( 354–430 ) who had described the Trinity in psychological terms : just as the human mind , which was created in God 's image , had three powers — memory , understanding and will — so God 's unity contained Three Persons , which corresponded to these human powers . |
| 23 | Meanwhile Germany 's defeat found British diplomats earnestly discussing Soviet intentions and the appropriate Western response . |
| 24 | The process of sharing perceptions of one another 's readiness produced varied results . |
| 25 | Left : Compact but powerful , Homeguard 's Trimalert combined high-intensity halogen floodlight and PIR unit fits unobtrusively to front of your house ; 150 watt halogen tube is equivalent to 500 watt floodlight |
| 26 | Her clothes , her face , her hands , her glistening rounded legs were many shades of what Frederica later learned from her to call " mohve " , like , yet unlike , the innocent bright asters and the cyclamen , which now in Stephanie 's mind resembled bruised flesh . |
| 27 | Faster than a computer , Robyn 's mind reviewed these candidates for the target of the strike and rejected them all . |
| 28 | Clinton 's candidacy combined 1960s-style idealism with New South pragmatism to woo voters with a promise of results over ideology or political party . |
| 29 | But Mr Onanuga 's girlfriend said last night she still believed him . |
| 30 | The plaintiff 's horse ate some leaves and died and the defendants were held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |