Example sentences of "' [noun] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 2 | Otherwise , I 'd suggest you leaf through the many shareware suppliers ' adverts and examine their offerings . |
| 3 | She was jealous of her husband 's many romantic liaisons and was a formidable opponent , with many stories being told of her harrying Zeus ' mistresses and persecuting his illegitimate children . |
| 4 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 5 | She had inherited a substantial sum of money from her parents ' estates and devoted herself to works of charity . |
| 6 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 7 | Coaching is the personal help which you give to develop your subordinates ' skills and improve their way of working . |
| 8 | For example , the major criticism which parents made of social workers concerned their poor communications , lack of openness and honesty , failure to value parents ' strengths and to treat them as equals , and a failure to involve parents in decisions . |
| 9 | Peace did not reign for long as he provoked the ultimate chop for himself by one day taking his scissors to all of the models ' heads and cropping them . |
| 10 | The more senior staff also say they feel more competent to conduct the review , have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful , report that outsiders were more involved in their schools ' review and consider their reports to be more judgmental . |
| 11 | Jack Mason appeared at the players ' entrance and greeted me in his usual jovial way . |
| 12 | Ceauşescu knew that he could not both meet the miners ' demands and achieve his economic targets . |
| 13 | He was a leading light in the Cinematograph Exhibitors ' Association and expanded his business by acquiring and developing a chain of cinemas — which he named Vogue — in places like Govan , Rutherglen and Shettleston . |
| 14 | It invades privacy , with investigators spying on claimants ' homes and questioning their children ( Lister , 1973 ) . |
| 15 | She took her arms away from round her kids ' shoulders and held them out for him . |
| 16 | And some chap came down from the M G B Owners ' Club and said he 'd offer him six thousand for it . |
| 17 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 18 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 19 | If an employee 's hand slips into the governor 's pocket and removes any spare cash , that is theft ; if the governor puts his hand into employees ' pockets and takes their spare cash , i.e. reduces wages , even below the legal minimum , that is the labour market operating reasonably . |
| 20 | According to the magazine , which has published only artist 's impressions of the pictures , it was Fergie 's discovery of the photos that ended the Yorks ' marriage and sent her into Bryan 's arms . |
| 21 | Reform and strengthen local government , removing unnecessary tiers , restoring councils ' independence and ensuring they are accountable to the people through a fair voting system . |
| 22 | He would stand in the gents ' cubicle and work his way through the fantasy , peeing in synchronization with the finale . |
| 23 | Towards noon on 5th October , Howard 's treaty Nez Perce scouts Captain John and Old George carried a white flag to the fugitives ' lines and asked them to make peace . |
| 24 | Campion stabbed his finger twice , once at Carson , you , and then towards the road shoulder , over there , and then Sorvino put the Ford across the Mercedes ' bows and slowed him into the side of the road . |
| 25 | When he eventually died , Alexander built a city in Bucephalus ' honour and died himself shortly afterwards . |
| 26 | The GCSE , which stresses individual initiative and competence , has boosted students ' confidence and encouraged their interest in learning . |
| 27 | Like advertisements , window displays aim to attract the customers ' attention and persuade them to enter the shop and buy . |
| 28 | Reid 's role in this coup is not to put money on the eventual winner but to back other horses in the race , thus distracting the bookies ' attention and stopping them pulling their usual trick which is to depress the winner 's official starting price by similar last-minute shenanigans . |
| 29 | This will attract the fishes ' attention and encourage them to feed . |
| 30 | And it 's really to make people to attract peoples ' attention and to make them think about these issues . |