Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 2 | After Allitt moved out of the Jobsons ' home , his dizzy spells , craving for chocolate and sudden collapses had stopped . |
| 3 | They split apart in the straight , one group swinging wide , the red and white of premiere spurting forward with the Youngs ' pair at his quarters and Upper Gumtree swerving dramatically through a gap to take the rails well ahead of pampering . |
| 4 | And the copyist left a blank in one other movement : the instrumental bass line of the song ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — one of the ‘ new ’ songs , placed just before the Haymakers ' scene . |
| 5 | It was a bridesmaid 's dress , left over from her cousin 's wedding in Charters Towers last year , and she had not worn it since , but the brief glimpse she had had of the other female guests had told her that her more casual outfits would not do tonight amongst the Hamiltons ' sophisticated entourage . |
| 6 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 7 | Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England . |
| 8 | Despite having 20 minutes to compose himself after being given advance notification of the exit poll result , the tension showed clearly on the Kinnocks ' faces as they they struggled to swallow bitter disappointment . |
| 9 | Reluctantly Theodora turned towards the gate to walk back to the Julians ' and the interrogatory telephone . |
| 10 | She walked on to the Fourniers ' house , dragging every step . |
| 11 | They strolled back home down the tunnelled lane and called in at the Littles ' cottage and the Vicarage on the way . |
| 12 | For in fact , Co-operation does not fit comfortably into the Webbs ' conception of Socialism . |
| 13 | Flavia walked away from the Fourniers ' house seeing the next stage of her course . |
| 14 | One day in early February , Harriet walked up to the Raffertys ' cottage and knocked on the door . |
| 15 | Harking back to The Smiths ' early days , it is another stab at Victorian virtue : ‘ A crack on the head is what you get for asking . ’ |
| 16 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 17 | Socialist proposals for state-provided health care can be traced back to the Webbs ' Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law in 1905 . |
| 18 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 19 | He was being heckled , jeered and booed by the vast majority , which included several hundred workers who had driven up from the Midlands ' plants to influence the vote . |
| 20 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 21 | The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D . |
| 22 | After the excitement died down , and I was being congratulated by my wee brother and the others , I looked up at the Edelmans ' window . |
| 23 | We can , moreover , be fairly sure that these contacts with other communities had effects which went far beyond the Minoans ' original intentions . |
| 24 | However , she had met a very nice lady from Pinner who said why did n't she come along with the Lionisers ' visit to Fort House that afternoon . |
| 25 | The raiders slipped in past the Macleans ' patrolling galleys , and killed and kidnapped , destroyed and looted , slaughtering or crippling what livestock they could not carry off and leaving the survivors to starve . |
| 26 | Though I am reluctant to lay down rules , I do find the following guidelines , set out in the Fowlers ' The King ‘ s English , helpful as a sort of mental checklist for my own work : |
| 27 | Most of these would have qualified even under the Webbs ' strict insistence that only " continuous associations " qualified as trade unions . |