Example sentences of "[noun] ' [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we say a food contains so many " calories ' we really mean kilo-calories or thousand calories . |
| 2 | Some festive favourites , including The Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand and Slade 's Merry Christmas Everybody were destined to become pop classics . |
| 3 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago when the Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand was number one . |
| 4 | Parents ' what ? |
| 5 | Last-minute learning is often poorly absorbed and " blocks ' your memory . |
| 6 | Also , in October 1949 , the Communists ' who had been fighting in the Greek Civil War , ceased fighting . |
| 7 | There was plenty of material to work from : Latin was compulsory at Plumford Grammar School ; the English master had drummed into their memories large sections of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome ; they had read novels with a Roman background , like Rosemary Sutcliff 's Eagle of the Ninth and Robert Graves ' I , Claudius ; and they could plunder Hubert Molland 's classical library for further information as the need arose . |
| 8 | The librarian has developed some excellent information skills software packages ' which are used in operation with other school staff on a variety of projects . |
| 9 | Interesting that the offices of Yeo Davis should be very much less at the leading edge of modern design than the solicitors ' which they had just seen , McLeish thought , and murmured as much to Catherine Crane , who laughed . |
| 10 | Under the heading ‘ Money-Lenders ’ Baits ' he showed his readers how the cormorants attempted to lure them into their net — advertisements from loan merchants hiding behind grand names like The Clerical and Medical Bank , in all parts of Britain , none of whom saw fit to mention the rates of interest they would charge , and some specifying Without Sureties . |
| 11 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 12 | Okay , welcome to 'Influencing Skills ' we we always do the fancy bits of , erm , whatever , I 'll change the words this time , because I 'm getting a bit bored with the way we normally do it , name . |
| 13 | Laver ( 1991 ) describes these as " the way in which the speaker 'sets ' his muscular vocal apparatus for speaking " . |
| 14 | He declared that the sane and sound advocacy of social democracy by the SDP would outlast all the various actionist ‘ will o ’ the wisps ' which , while apparently indicating easy roads to the promised land of social and economic emancipation , finally led to anarchical swamps and morasses ( SE 6 August 21 . ) . |
| 15 | Although their cars were not as good as the Germans ' he drove brilliantly and beat the Mercedes and Auto Unions at the Nurburgring in 1935 to win the German Grand Prix . |
| 16 | " These anti-partisan units are without exception completely compromised by open collaboration with the Germans ' he wrote , but he recommended that in view of the complexity of the situation they should not be " handed over to the Yugoslav army " but " should be disarmed and placed in refugee camps ! |
| 17 | Firs ' we tie your han 's , leetle dog . ’ .. |
| 18 | Apart from its undoubted value in its own right , Sears ' provides a valuable model or point of departure for others wishing to devise alphabetical subject headings lists for applications in which Sears ' itself would not be appropriate . |
| 19 | By –passengers ' she meant those who travelled steerage . |
| 20 | Jus ' you go into Newry and make enquiries about that fancy new boat that 's all the talk of the papers . |
| 21 | Among the prizes are 100 copies of Now 22 , a double LP compilation packed with this year 's biggest hits — including Erasure 's Take A Chance On Me , Jimmy Nail 's Ai n't No Doubt , the Utah Saints ' Something Good , the Orb 's Blue Room and the Cure 's Friday I 'm In Love . |
| 22 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 23 | We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees , so at some point in either our ancestry or chimps ' there must have been a change in chromosome number . |
| 24 | But , in terms of the the actual vision screening itself erm , we 've iden , those people who 've been identified as V D U , V D U users ' we 've had about five hundred and fifty replies to that , from the V D U , V D U , users ' . |
| 25 | So , of the er , er yeah , of the people who were identified as being users ' , V D U users ' we 've had about eight percent of the replies have actually been returned , so we are chasing some . |
| 26 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
| 27 | The imperative 'need to find regularities ' which Popper speaks of , coupled with Bartlett 's ‘ effort after meaning ’ , constitute a powerful expectation in human beings that what is said or written will make sense in the context in which it appears . |
| 28 | The Franks have chosen to play a version of The Monkees ' I 'm A Believer for the NME 's charity covers album , ‘ Ruby Trax ’ . |
| 29 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 30 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |