Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 2 | The Securities and Investments Board has welcomed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' decision that its members should be authorised via membership of the Securities and Futures Authority , rather than the RICS seeking recognition in its own right . |
| 3 | Well does n't it ma , I mean when you do you 'll be away with your different groups ' points and he 'll be |
| 4 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 5 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |
| 6 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 7 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 8 | DROMORE High lifted their third successive High Schools ' Cup when they defeated perennial opponents Limavady High in yesterday 's final shoot-out at Ravenhill . |
| 9 | They apply to different communities , they have responded to different communities ' needs but they also contribute to a ripple effect of achievement at national and international levels which will ultimately benefit the lives of many more children . |
| 10 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 11 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 12 | Although both sides became frustrated , it says much for the social workers ' determination that they turned up to meetings and attempted to understand me . |
| 13 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 14 | It was usual for the Girls to stay at the English Girls ' Club when they first arrived . |
| 15 | There was the usual pub smell of stale tobacco but the river Thames laps against the old smugglers ' inn and its odours mingle with the rest . |
| 16 | They LIED last Tuesday in their weekly works ' newsletter when they said : ‘ Reprocessing has been temporarily halted because of maintenance work . ’ |
| 17 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 18 | ‘ They do n't consult us on the agenda of the foreign ministers ' meeting and they do n't treat us as equal partners , ’ says a Czech diplomat . |
| 19 | I discovered Buddy Guy , who was playing in Muddy Waters ' band and there was this album called ‘ Folk Festival Of The Blues ’ , which was the first album that Buddy Guy had appeared on . |
| 20 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 21 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 22 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 23 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 24 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 25 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 26 | That matter was being discussed at the chief executives ' conference that I attended in Harrogate on Thursday , and it is a matter of great importance to all those working in the ’ next steps ’ agencies . |
| 27 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 28 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
| 29 | I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman was going to say whether he was in favour of the Liberal Democrats ' position that there should not be a Secretary of State and on Labour 's position that there should be . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware of the continuing violence against rural workers ' leaders and their supporters in Brazil and of the fact that according to recent evidence from the Brazilian Church 's Pastoral Land Commission since 1964 , 1,667 rural workers have been murdered , that there have been 23 trials and only 13 sentences ? |