Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 2 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 3 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
| 4 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 5 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 6 | For purely practical purposes , I deal with the artists ' money for recording and touring expenses . |
| 7 | I looked at the passengers ' faces . |
| 8 | Most nights I go to the miners ' welfare or a pub , or a club . |
| 9 | In the autumn of 1959 I was eleven , and I went to the girls ' grammar school down the road . |
| 10 | Then I went to the carers ' meeting [ at the day centre ] and there was somebody there from CAB and they said ‘ You should have been getting it ages ago ’ . |
| 11 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 12 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 13 | ‘ I agree with the Childminders ' Association on that . |
| 14 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
| 15 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 16 | Alternatively , there would be great benefit in choosing someone working in the pupils ' locality e.g. a youth worker , a nurse , a pupil involved in the provision of a soup kitchen or the organisation of a pro-life cell . |
| 17 | Jerome Blum assigns the tsar pride of place in the list of factors which contributed to the serfs ' emancipation . |
| 18 | After spraying , the beetle feeds on the crystallised proteins which react in the insects ' gut , causing paralysis then death four to seven days later . |
| 19 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 20 | Working initially in pairs and then in groups , pursue the question : " What would you like to do a drama about ? " , seeking to find a dramatic starting point which stems from the interviewees ' interests . |
| 21 | Within the government , local officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources have expressed misgivings over the fact that permission was granted at senior level despite the findings of environmental impact assessments which concurred with the environmentalists ' fears . |
| 22 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |
| 23 | These differences are in turn related to variations in economic and socio-political conditions which existed during the unions ' formative period and in their subsequent historical development . |
| 24 | Like all left-wingers , Lowe loathed Wilson , who had been elected in 1974 on the back of the wave of industrial militancy which culminated in the miners ' strike of that year . |
| 25 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 26 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 27 | A child 's development always takes place within a context of contemporaneous events , the most important of which result from the parents ' activities . |
| 28 | In 877 he imposed a levy on both peasants and nobles which discriminated in the peasants ' favour and seems to have provoked noble disaffection . |
| 29 | The quality assurance scheme will mean the introduction of new procedures which conform to the Institutes ' requirements . |
| 30 | In their analyses of the understanding " displays " of next turns , Cameron and Taylor argue , the conversation analysts fail to follow their own prescriptions , which require them to look to the participants ' analysis displayed in the next turn . |