Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock . |
| 2 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 3 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 4 | Excavation of one tomb has also shed light on the Egyptians ' sexual mores . |
| 5 | , Frances Mary ( 1827–1894 ) , educator and founding figure in the girls ' public day-school movement in England , was born in London 16 August 1827 , the eldest of ten children ( of whom she and four brothers were survivors ) of Robert William Buss , painter and etcher , and his wife Frances Fleetwood . |
| 6 | UN officials had reportedly been negotiating with Somali clan leaders to obtain approval for the troops ' dispatch . |
| 7 | Another way of gaining insight into the students ' predicament is to analyse how we ourselves ( native and non-native speaker ) set about tackling pieces of English discourse which pose comprehension problems for us . |
| 8 | The inclusion on the album of two seven-minute songs amongst the other three-minute pop nuggets point to The Stairs ' keenness to gravitate from 1965 towards 1969 . |
| 9 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 10 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
| 11 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
| 12 | I found Bunny in the girls ' kitchen the next morning trying to find something to eat that was n't raw carrot , muesli or Ryvita and something to drink other than herbal tea . |
| 13 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 14 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 15 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 16 | There would probably be no need to transfer substantial assets of the business into the new company and the appropriate step might be to allocate part of the solicitors ' clientele to the company partner to establish it as having a regular practice . |
| 17 | dressing Tiger for the dolls ' pram . |
| 18 | In another development , six of the 11 executive members who voted against the motion expressing confidence in the MPs ' decision , stressed their opposition to the argument being continued in public . |
| 19 | We note that it came top of the apostles ' agenda when the members of the brand new church ‘ devoted themselves to the apostles ’ teaching' ( Acts 2:2 ) . |
| 20 | An attempt to regain control over the peasants ' movement |
| 21 | The plan has provoked a fierce debate within France , with President Mitterrand 's wife , Danielle , leading the protest , and Environment Minister Brice Lalonde expressing concern over the bears ' fate . |
| 22 | Did the nurse show understanding of the patients ' needs ? |
| 23 | The audit committee , which is comprised solely of independent directors , reviews the group 's internal controls and financial results with the external auditors , agrees the scope of the auditors ' work and monitors implementation of the auditors ' recommendations . |
| 24 | Raymond was witty and unusual and from time to time he was invited to drink coffee at the artists ' cafés . |
| 25 | To combat the opposite extreme of jerry-building , we would make membership of the Housebuilders ' Registration Council 's register compulsory upon all contractors for local authority houses , with a view to rendering the building industry eventually an industry subject throughout to publicly-approved standards . |
| 26 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 27 | And , while the general right of beneficiaries to inspect trust documents was recognised in In re Londonderry 's Settlement [ 1965 ] Ch. 918 as being a proprietary right , that case does not provide support for the plaintiffs ' contention in the instant appeal . |
| 28 | The terms of these rules give body to the parties ' respective stances before Vinelott J. and on this appeal . |
| 29 | But the plan has drawn criticism from the Palestinians ' Arab peace talks partners , who accuse Arafat of lack of consultation , and from hardline Palestinian groups who denounce it as a sell-out . |
| 30 | He poured scorn on the Conservatives ' pre-election assurances on their low-tax policy , describing the Government as ‘ political cheats who have got into power by sheer dishonesty and by defrauding the electorate ’ . |