Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] ['s] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is still better not to cook dishes yourself using cow 's milk before she is six months old , and you should also avoid giving your baby dairy products like yogurt , or mixing her cereal with cow 's milk . |
| 2 | They 've got to repair daddy 's car because it could be dangerous , Grant . |
| 3 | Do n't need cont er do n't need banker 's orders and they do n't need cheques but we have to have an order from the company . |
| 4 | The very ordinariness of Luke 's tone caught Folly 's attention and she paused , her muscles still tensed to run . |
| 5 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 6 | So it must have been a grown person 's skull but it 's too small and light for an adult male , so it must have been a woman . |
| 7 | ‘ Only if you promise not to talk Man 's Talk when I 'm in the kitchen making gagging noises so that you think I 've got an Espresso machine , ’ said Sorrel , eyeing him suspiciously . |
| 8 | Turning to what she called ‘ the heart of the matter ’ , the Prime Minister said : ‘ Remove man 's freedom and you dwarf the individual , you devalue his conscience and you demoralise him . ’ |
| 9 | Imagine mother 's distress when she discovered there was no such thing ! |
| 10 | I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room . |
| 11 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 12 | The rest of the myth concerns Psyche 's trials until she is eventually reunited with Eros on Mount Olympus . |
| 13 | The general conclusion still holds : the poorer groups in society seem somewhat less willing than the rich to challenge society 's rules if they feel a law is unjust . |
| 14 | I heard Daffodil 's voice before I saw her , so that when Filmer came past the door of the bar I was bending down with my head below the counter as if to be tidying things there . |
| 15 | Corporal Alan Furniss , commander of the Warrior , said they were driving through an area nicknamed Sniper 's Alley when he received a message there was firing from a cinema ahead . |
| 16 | Right let's have collector 's corner if you can help anyone on collector 's corner call please Nottingham three four three four three four . |
| 17 | It had been extensively rewritten by Robert , who was now so good at doing Mafouz 's handwriting that it had affected his ability to reproduce his own signature convincingly . |
| 18 | I just have that feeling , as I have done all season , that honours could be coming Villa 's way if we continue to play powerful , punishing football . |
| 19 | I simply want to enjoy Uncle 's money while I 'm young enough ! ’ |
| 20 | But whatever I do ( and I do plenty ) I can not change Rainbow 's belief that it is as blessed to give as to receive . |
| 21 | Frankie liked Nanny 's house because it was warm and brightly lit , but he was rarely allowed to go there alone because Smallfry knew things about it that he would never understand . |
| 22 | When the situation got beyond the normal discouraging advice , I would inform him that it was necessary to take counsel 's opinion before we proceeded any further . |
| 23 | If she denied fitzAlan 's story so she could have the solar to herself , she would become lost in a morass of other lies and explanations , and her mind was n't clear enough to cope with such a task . |
| 24 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 25 | The Government controls Parliament 's time and it is therefore able to limit debate where its proposals are proving controversial or where a rational examination of them is turning out to be embarrassing . |
| 26 | Ulster 's opposition to Home Rule long pre-dated Law 's leadership and he had rarely even spoken on Irish affairs in parliament before becoming leader . |
| 27 | He wanted Druid 's Bottom and he did n't care what happened to Hepzibah and Mister Johnny . |
| 28 | But her first , most immediate priority was to win again , to show racing 's sceptics that she was not a loser , nor bent , but simply a good , strong apprentice on her way to the top . |