Example sentences of "[noun] ' [adj] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 3 | He was given six months ' hard labour after he refused on principle to pay the fine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This confused the Girls ' uncomplicated minds as they knew the couple were still living together . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |