Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 2 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 3 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 4 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 5 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 6 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 7 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 8 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 9 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 10 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
| 11 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 12 | A South Korean government delegation led by Prime Minister Kang Young Hoon visited North Korea on Oct. 16-19 for a second session of the joint Premiers ' talks which had begun in September . |
| 13 | Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 15 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 16 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 17 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 18 | In a re-run Senate by-election in Lublin on June 11 , the Citizens ' Committee candidate won almost 51 per cent of the vote against his opponent from Private Farmers ' Solidarity who took just over 48 per cent . |
| 19 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 20 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 21 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 22 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 23 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 24 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 25 | 17 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of more than five years ' duration who had reported altered hypoglycaemia awareness within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 26 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 27 | This unexpected reassurance followed a meeting with the European Publishers ' Council which claimed the EC 's planned restrictions on the advertising of tobacco , alcohol , food , drugs and toys inhibited free trade and commercial freedom of speech . |
| 28 | Carrick reached that rank after twenty years ' service which included considerable experience in the intermediate rank of supervisor of excise at Forfar before being advanced to his collectorship . |
| 29 | Within minutes of the disaster , Blairman 's offered me a desk and telephone , Mallett 's provided porters and storage for the 60 years ' accumulation which had to be out of Mount Street in two days . |
| 30 | One high street retailer , Comet , announced that it would offer refunds to people who bought its own-brand and other manufacturers ' models which failed the Government tests announced on Monday . |