Example sentences of "[noun] ' [adj] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea .
2 In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed .
3 We helped second-hand car-buyers , too , when we uncovered British School of Motoring 's clever dodge for covering up their cars ' real origins when they sold them on .
4 The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot .
5 He was given six months ' hard labour after he refused on principle to pay the fine .
6 He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie .
7 The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples .
8 The Prince and Princess attended the Parker-Bowles ' house-warming party when they moved from Bolehyde Manor to Middlewich House , twelve miles from Highgrove and Charles regularly saw Camilla when he went fox hunting .
9 She has always in her thoughts her parents ' mean condition and I shall do nothing for them , at least at present , because I will keep the girl humble .
10 I had to get my passport done , my parents ' written permission because I was only seventeen and I found myself in Paris two days later .
11 Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger .
12 If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments .
13 They had no reason to suppose that he had been in pursuit of them , the western ride led in the general direction of the outlaws ' Great Camp and they presumed that was where he was going .
14 Hamilton knew it would be foolish to abandon his predecessors ' successful formula but he was keen to tamper and experiment with fresh ideas .
15 It is quite obvious that they wished to their little beating hearts ' total desire that it was .
16 It was like a concentration camp ; the absurd vulnerability of the nakedness all around , the screws ' blank expressions as they monitored the shuffling of the caged .
17 I reiterate that we should have a Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee and I am trying to relate the new clause to my believe that we should have an overall consultative committee .
18 Western Klick Photopoint should consolidate their lead in Division I of the Torrie Stockbrokers ' National League when they meet fourth-placed Grove at Stepps tomorrow , then face bottom club , Kirkcaldy , at McDiarmid Park , Perth , on Sunday .
19 This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important .
20 His catalogue of indiscretions really began in 1987 when he crossed swords with Kenny Dalglish over Jones ' alleged threat that he intended ‘ to rip off his ear and spit in the hole . ’
21 This confused the Girls ' uncomplicated minds as they knew the couple were still living together .
22 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 .
23 One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ .
24 NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament .
25 Nearly all these refer to Wirral residents ' apparent belief that they are socially and economically superior to those across the River Mersey in Liverpool.Thus , on the Liverpool side , Wirral people are referred to as ‘ the stuck-up nobodies across the water ’ and worse .
26 ‘ It 's A Shame … ’ is the title track from the Lemonheads ' enthralling album and it 's beautiful .
27 I mean I do n't wan na make it sound like it 's , i i i it 's , it 's an impossible thing , but it 's very difficult at this stage to forecast , but James ' basic assertion that it is n't a very material number is correct .
28 When someone first joins an organisation , it 's much easier for them to ascertain their new colleagues ' overt status than it is to understand their active status .
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