Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set against the resentment which their greed aroused , the administrative reforms which the younger Despenser together with the Chancellor Robert Baldock and the Treasurer Walter Stapleton implemented between 1322 and 1326 were of little political significance , despite the fact that some of their measures , such as the reduction in the financial independence of the Wardrobe , had formed part of the Ordainers ' programme in 1310 . |
| 2 | Jeremy 's natural joy in the festivities found fulfilment at the Youngs ' house , where a children 's party and innumerable presents helped to put his father 's tragedy into the background . |
| 3 | It was not only the tradesmen and merchants but the Lord Chancellor who opposed any bill which tried to remedy defects in the Lords ' Act . |
| 4 | He relapsed into a dangerous silence when they accused him of ‘ breaking family ties ’ by his refusal to stop writing letters to the Strickers ' home . |
| 5 | They appeared to be of one mind again when they appeared jointly to give evidence before the Commons ' Energy Committee on the greenhouse effect 's implications for energy policy . |
| 6 | Baker did well apart from losing possession for the Saints ' third goal while Wark earned a first half booking for a challenge on Banger . |
| 7 | Keast , who was just able to recall the Jubilee celebrations for George III in 1810 taking place at the Bullers ' home at Shillingham , was to officiate at Queen 's Victoria 's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887 at the age of 84 . |
| 8 | The letter ( written four years before Lewis became a Christian ) expresses distaste for the Groupers ' reported custom of extracting public confessions from their devotees . |
| 9 | The fact that we were making love in the Parsons ' matrimonial bed , the sheets still warm and smelly from their previous occupant , may have had something to do with it as well . |
| 10 | And the blissed-out mid-Atlantic tones it conjures up hardly do justice to the Beatles ' own thick and sardonic Liverpudlian accents . |
| 11 | Among others enjoying this happy evening were , who as an immediate Past Master of the Salters ' Company most kindly arranged for the dinner to take place in the Salters ' Hall . |
| 12 | He left £8 to the Salters ' Company , for a supper on the day of his burial . |
| 13 | They make references to the Stooges ' ‘ 1969 ’ , to Manson , to Presley 's ‘ Mystery Train' ( also the title of Greil Marcus 's famous book on the mythology of rock ) . |