Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly the most terrifying of Rodley 's activities whilst attached to No 5 Group was a remarkable escape from destruction when he took off from Coningsby on a special mining raid , with a full load of Admiralty aerial mines , and suffered engine failure almost immediately after take-off . |
| 2 | I shall need to see today 's print-outs and talk to the drivers tomorrow , ’ she followed up firmly . |
| 3 | Would you like to represent the NCT and voice our member 's opinions and needs on an official body concerned with promoting good ante-natal care ? |
| 4 | It could be , too , that the unusually complex character of Captain Hawkins , an illegitimate son of Peter Simple 's uncle , a man moved by obsessive jealousy , eroded by concealed cowardice and capable of the most intricate plotting against the young hero , has something to do with one of O'Brian 's most impressive studies of character , the officer Lord Clonfert who , in The Mauritius Command , more than once frustrates Aubrey 's plans and perplexes to the point of real suffering the open-minded captain with his extraordinary psychosomatic state . |
| 5 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 6 | It will be about twice as long as the goods brake and , as Colin 's article states , it will be carried on No. 5 's bogies and used as a mobile shop/ticket office/refreshment car . |
| 7 | On the following day Kim announced that he would honour his family 's wishes and remain within the DLP . |
| 8 | Some information is given about these iron deposits in Postlethwaite 's Mines and Mining in the Lake District page 127 . |
| 9 | He put a supporting arm round Farquhar 's shoulders and grinned at the men rowing only hard enough to hold the ship steady . |
| 10 | And turning into the big , soft breast , she threw her arms round the woman 's shoulders and cried like a baby . |
| 11 | Then he was back , sliding his arm nonchalantly round Tug 's shoulders and smiling into the evening light . |
| 12 | We still work in the same building , so we 'll often pop into each other 's offices or talk on the phone , although Peter often blips me on my computer . |
| 13 | For this purpose auditors are entitled , under section 237(3) , to inspect the company 's books and to require from the company 's officers such information as they think necessary for the performance of their duties . |
| 14 | Attempts to improve women 's opportunities and pay within the labour market can therefore only have a limited success as long as women within the family continue to undertake most of the work of caring . |
| 15 | The man saw the determination in Mauer 's eyes and returned to the kitchen , closing the door behind him . |
| 16 | Zhorik has also developed an interesting new style : huge sheets with paintings that recall Roy Lichenstein 's pictures but executed in a naïve , ethnic style that could be either Russian or New Guinean . |
| 17 | Milan : Shares rebounded from Friday 's losses but ended below the day 's highs , with the MIB 0.43 per cent higher at 1,169 . |
| 18 | Also on June 21 both the Bundestag and the Volkskammer approved a resolution recognizing the inviolability of Poland 's borders as established after the Second World War and guaranteeing the Oder-Neisse border with Poland as the eastern border of a future united Germany . |
| 19 | for the social life of the family — spoiled , noisy , aggressive , destructive ‘ brats ’ are not welcome in other people 's homes and contribute to the social isolation of their parents ; |
| 20 | And with that he stepped across Armstrong 's headlights and walked towards the Mimosa , right hand in his pocket . |
| 21 | The reforms , according to Mobutu , were based on the people 's aspirations as expressed in a recent nationwide " popular consultation " exercise . |
| 22 | Reverie , Myth and Sensuality : Sculpture in Britain 1880–1910 , running concurrently with Traces of the Figure , brings together 30 works which represent the movement in sculpture which is also now known as the ‘ New Sculpture ’ , a categorisation which follows Edmund Gosse 's articles that appeared in the Art Journal during 1894 . |
| 23 | Victoria , oddly quenched , sat at Aunt Margaret 's feet and gazed at the shifting patterns in the fire , singing to herself a wordless , keening song . |
| 24 | The man in Eden , Cain 's father , at first accepted God 's prohibition without question , and he and the woman only misread God 's motives when prompted by the snake . |
| 25 | He put himself into the pathologist 's shoes and stood in the witness box . |
| 26 | As later chapters show , answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question are also related to the kind of standards and routines adopted in housework , and to women 's self-concepts as expressed in a written statement . |
| 27 | Unknowingly Raistrick followed the same path as the St. Mary 's workers and came to the same conclusion : the instability of the antibacterial substance did not make further attempts worth while . |
| 28 | If you stand where King Harold 's men awaited William 's troops or walk through the actual battlefield you can almost sense the battle all around you . |
| 29 | It was a prosperous and fashionable area in CD 's days but deteriorated into a slum in the late nineteenth century . |
| 30 | The impact of Morris 's ideas as channelled through the sphere of consumption , provided an effective means for the further development of precisely those class differences which in turn helped reproduce the conditions for the exploitation of labour . |