Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 2 | By 1914 there were no more than 20,000 noble landowners fully enfranchised to vote in the landowners ' curias of the Duma and the zemstvos , as well as in the provincial assemblies of the nobility . |
| 3 | Deane , anxious to end a wretched run that has brought him only one goal in 15 Premier League matches , failed to score in the reserves ' 1-0 win at Leicester . |
| 4 | Then in the 1980s , the party also became associated in the voters ' mind with extremists . |
| 5 | The Bank of England was granted leave to intervene in the plaintiffs ' action on 7 May 1991 . |
| 6 | They are believed to have worked in the officers ' mess of a signals unit posted to Moortsel , a village near Tervuren , 10 miles east of Brussels , in September 1944 . |
| 7 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 8 | The next time they returned to the windward mark , Paul Cayard tried to shoot the mark as Dennis Conner had done in the defenders ' trials on Tuesday . |
| 9 | And all of us had to assemble in the servants ' hall for lunch . |
| 10 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 11 | The desire to ensure that the adult child retains an appropriate degree of independence can be particularly tricky in these circumstances , especially if she or he returns to live in the parents ' home and is dependent upon them for accommodation , child care , emotional support and possibly for money as well . |