Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reluctantly Theodora turned towards the gate to walk back to the Julians ' and the interrogatory telephone . |
| 4 | She walked on to the Fourniers ' house , dragging every step . |
| 5 | One day in early February , Harriet walked up to the Raffertys ' cottage and knocked on the door . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 8 | 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 . |