Example sentences of "' [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belfast Action Team said agencies would answer queries and encourage the formation of residents ' groups to involve them in decision-making . |
| 2 | ‘ How may years ' experience does she recommend that an editor clock ( sic ) up … ’ chides Miss Phillips . |
| 3 | How many years ' experience does she recommend that an editor clock up before attempting to master the use of apostrophes and capitalisation ? |
| 4 | The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits . |
| 5 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 6 | She was to be boarded permanently so we would need the owners ' permission to take her away . |
| 7 | I think it might tax the policy writers ' ingenuity to write it . |
| 8 | But Jesus ' teaching shows us that repentance is God 's joy . |
| 9 | Tries from Ian Lucas and Sam Panapa put Wigan in front but a John Gilfallan try reduced the deficit to two points before Denis Betts ' try wrapped it up for Wigan in injury time . |
| 10 | Pigs ' trotters made him sick . |
| 11 | Most at risk is Venice , California , on Los Angeles 's Pacific shore , where the Venice in Peril organisation welcomes visitors ' support to help them to save the many cultural treasures , some of them almost 50 years old . |
| 12 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 13 | Yet the most unnerving revelation of this book is less the bit that shocked Mr Teicher — his colleagues ' attempts to make him a scapegoat in the Irangate arms-for-hostages scandal — and more his portrayal of the muddle that characterises America 's dealings with this explosive region . |
| 14 | Is not it the truth that CTCs have emerged only as a result of the lavish use of taxpayers ' money to prop them up ? |
| 15 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 16 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 17 | She sighed with relief , but the look in the SS officers ' eyes warned her that she had something worse in mind . |
| 18 | The families ' lawyer says it 's time the matter was sorted out . |
| 19 | The Fourstars ' lawyer showed it to Medicare which finally relented . |
| 20 | Ok … your final task for the day is to name your ‘ brilliant ’ midfield … and we 'll have a little comparison shall we … in fact Ill use Leeds ' reserves to make it fairer . |
| 21 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 22 | The International Squash Players ' Association said it will take action this week on the 20-year-old Pakistani , and the likelihood is a fine and a zero point score for the World Open . |
| 23 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 24 | Jesus ' sufferings draw us into the love of God and show us how much he loved us . |
| 25 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
| 26 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
| 27 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 28 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 29 | One year after its inception , the members of the Precision RISC Organisation supporters ' club say they have successfully built and delivered a new business model for industry consortia , Hewlett-Packard Co reports . |
| 30 | However , a liquidation of this importance should operate with a creditors ' committee to represent them . |