Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything you 're up to let us know it 's What 's On B B C Radio Nottingham P O Box two two two in Nottingham Nottingham N G one three H Z to write to er give us a couple of weeks ' notice if you can . |
| 2 | Besides , it would be a criminal waste of taxpayers ' money if I did nothing . |
| 3 | Secondly , we can turn to Berger and Mohr 's account of migrants ' experience as they travel from an economically peripheral society to a thriving industrial economy in Western Europe . |
| 4 | It is also undoubtedly useful for teachers to be able to refer to features of pupils ' work when they are correcting it or trying to help pupils in some way . |
| 5 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 6 | ‘ I also scored for Monaco when he played for Auxerre and I was on target with Rangers ' penalty when we lost 2–1 to Marseille in a pre-season friendly here in July . |
| 7 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 8 | Shop-stewards can fail to support black workers or can participate in employers ' discrimination because they know the prejudiced opinions of their members and feel that they can not afford to lose their support . |
| 9 | It seems irresponsible and morally indefensible to intervene in clients ' lives if you are uncertain about what can be achieved and the best methods of doing so . |
| 10 | The moment that answers are sought to questions such as what particular properties of a painting lead to a specific kind of reaction , or what processes go on inside viewers ' minds as they respond with delight or dislike , ‘ … we enter a realm full of complexity and uncertainty ’ ( Cupchik and Heinrichs , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Particular backdrops were fashionable at different times ( and the furniture or background in an old photograph may tell us more about tastes and fashions in photographers ' studios than it does about furniture in homes ) . |
| 12 | And zero shareholders have preferential rights to trusts ' assets when they are wound up . |
| 13 | The fault came to Rangers ' attention when they were forced to postpone a Premier Division game with Dundee United at Ibrox in December because of a fractured drainage pipe . |
| 14 | The images are stored on a more powerful computer , called an image server , which not only handles the overall management of the system , but also controls the sending of images to users ' PCs when they need to view them . |
| 15 | Hospitals openly confess to giving higher priority to fundholders ' patients as they try to avoid financial crisis . |
| 16 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |
| 17 | In the case of a monopolist it is likely their planned sales prices will be based on costs and revenues at output levels where they can maximize profits without reference to competitors ' prices as they do not exist . |