Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | One time my friend and I accidentally kicked a bees ' nest , a small , round ball hidden behind the leaves some 10cm above the ground . |
| 2 | The chance was not high , though that never deterred a gambler , and the real winner was always the government which thus borrowed the punters ' money interest-free . |
| 3 | In about 1813–14 he organized in Bermondsey a society of workmen which virtually constituted a Mechanics ' Institute , almost ten years before those established by Leonard Horner [ q.v. ] |
| 4 | They drew 1-1 in Brussels with a late equaliser from Dean Saunders a result which virtually ended the Belgians ' interest in the competition after their 3-1 defeat in Cardiff three months earlier . |
| 5 | You just lifted the parents ' quotes Rich ? |
| 6 | Even Churchill , who repeatedly acknowledged the Allies ' " debt " to Franco for his " neutrality " during the Second World War , recognized the absurdity of this pious hope . |
| 7 | Jogger of the year was Sarah Rhimes and she also collected the ladies ' road race championship trophy for 1991 . |
| 8 | It was the other solitary customer in the room who now held the boys ' attention . |
| 9 | Accordingly , she quietly left the nurses ' station to go and take her patients ' before-lunch blood sugars , and carefully avoided Deana for the rest of the shift . |
| 10 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 11 | Of course , it would be different if he deliberately memorized the customers ' names or made a copy of them . |
| 12 | He also acquired the chemists ' chains , Timothy Whites and Taylors , gained a large stake in cinemas , and purchased the exhibition centre at Olympia . |
| 13 | But the effect seemed diluted as he then toured the docks ' cold store which was stuffed full of apples . |
| 14 | At sixteen he was employed at Bligh 's engineering works in Limehouse , and he then joined the Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 15 | Now that the camera is being made in Japan and some 400 Timex workers have lost their jobs , Nimslo says it actually received no taxpayers ' money . |
| 16 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |