Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , programmes of teacher education need to recognise and respect individual teachers ' responsibility for their own growth . |
| 2 | On 15 July 1985 I wrote to you in connection with Anglo-Welsh Breweries ' offer for your Company equivalent to 300p per share , which the Board rejected as wholly unacceptable . |
| 3 | Liu Binyan and Su Xiaokang were expelled from the official Chinese Writers ' Association for their " anti-government activities abroad " . |
| 4 | In 1893 a clerk named Alexander Howland Smith , more familiarly known as ‘ Antique ’ Smith because of his activities , received a sentence of twelve months ' imprisonment for his forgeries of a wide range of letters , including some from Carlyle , Thackeray and Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 5 | WEIGHTLIFTERS Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton have decided not to seek compensation from the British Amateur Weightlifters ' Association for their Olympic drugs ordeal . |
| 6 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 7 | These three chapters cover the 20 years of Jacob 's exile : 14 years ' service for his two wives , 6 for flocks of his own . |
| 8 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 9 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |