Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 2 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 3 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 4 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 5 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 6 | Robin Smith 's power play against India at Perth ( Week 1 ) and the demolition job England did on Pakistan at Adelaide ( Week 2 ) put them into the favourites ' spot at the same time as Australia absorbed one stunning setback after another , alleviated only by the thrilling one-run victory over India at Brisbane . |
| 7 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 8 | I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast . |
| 9 | At four o'clock Louise arrived on her scooter and parked it outside the Bristows ' council house . |
| 10 | Perhaps he kept such books at Castle Street , or read them in the Advocates ' Library . |
| 11 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 12 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 13 | Every hour after the operation , a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress ' graph . |
| 14 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 15 | She followed her to the ladies ' washroom . |
| 16 | Grumbling , Tracey followed her to the non-smokers ' seats . |
| 17 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 18 | But social services decided they did not have sufficient information to justify removing him from the Roberts ' care . |
| 19 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 20 | What does all this tell us of the rhynchosaurs ' diet ? |
| 21 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 22 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 23 | This one and the next , Chalk Farm , were tiled in white and buff , reminding her of the servants ' bathrooms at Temple Stephen . |
| 24 | Remembering that Peter Suvarov had , himself , taken part in that Revolution , Julia asked him about the Russians ' probable intentions . |
| 25 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 26 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 27 | She took me into the nurses ' changing-room . |
| 28 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 29 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
| 30 | And when a fellow American expatriate , Ethel Sands , saw him at the Richmonds ' in Wiltshire , he seemed " peaceful and happy now , after his stormy life … " |