Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 2 | He had kept away from the house , not wanting to intrude on the Bonnards ' private grief . |
| 3 | The Quebec government ordered the Army to dismantle the barricades on Aug. 27 , having refused to accede to the Mohawks ' additional demands that they be treated as a sovereign nation during negotiations and be granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 4 | Gould grew to depend on the Aborigines ' local knowledge to find birds that were new to the Western world and to learn about their habits . |
| 5 | Capron was also the fifth face in the photograph that Urquhart had wanted to take from the Nowaks ' house . |
| 6 | The nominal subject of such quarrels is of course secondary to the couple 's need to hurt each other , but in this case it appeared to centre on the Parsons ' childlessness . |
| 7 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 8 | Maisie had moved out of her parents ' house and come to stay at the Wilsons ' shortly after her mother 's funeral , a multi-denominational affair dominated by the headmaster of the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys ' School ( Day ) . |