Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in [art] [noun pl] ['s] " 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 | I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself . |
| 3 | oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After spraying , the beetle feeds on the crystallised proteins which react in the insects ' gut , causing paralysis then death four to seven days later . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 877 he imposed a levy on both peasants and nobles which discriminated in the peasants ' favour and seems to have provoked noble disaffection . |
| 8 | The Spaniards and the Italians need only home wins to set up an intriguing revenge match between two talented Latin sides who met in the Cup-Winners ' Cup final in Berne three years ago . |
| 9 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 10 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
| 11 | When you arrived in the Boys ' School , you quickly learned the rules . |
| 12 | Now that mirror 's the one that you look into when you go in the ladies ' toilets . |
| 13 | Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books . |
| 14 | She stayed in the Ladies ' room for a long time , amongst girls fainting , and weeping and grieving over laddered stockings , and when she emerged he had disappeared . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |
| 16 | As a well-known London character with a penchant for miniature kites , and a lecturer on sewing standards , his advice supplements what one finds in the manufacturers ' manuals . |
| 17 | The same went for all the climbing and jumping across the back court , over high walls and coal bunkers , that we did in the girls ' gang . |
| 18 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 19 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
| 20 | But there are only limited facilites for them stay in the children 's ward to be near their daughter . |
| 21 | However , there are wrong answers and these should be pointed out when they appear in the trainees ' work . |
| 22 | The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors . |
| 23 | It originated in the Mothers ' Clubs in a parish in the southern part of the city . |
| 24 | If he won in the members ' section , but still lost the ballot overall , due to heavy voting against him in the union section , he would cause a byelection . |
| 25 | He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo . |
| 26 | To Nick 's left sat Colonel Beamish who was looking as sceptical and impatient as he had in the stewards ' room at Ascot , and Lord Chester , a wealthy landowner who had ridden as an amateur until recently . |
| 27 | As one door would close , they would move on to another , never surrendering faith in the need for a popular paper that , in Hayling 's words , ‘ at the very least reflects the decent humanity in this country ’ , ’ he wrote in the journalists ' trade paper , UK Press Gazette . |
| 28 | He sat in the visitors ' chair and looked at me broodingly . |
| 29 | However , Mr Darling maintained that the hospital had written to a number of public bodies — including Lothian Regional Council — asking them to advertise in a children 's book , the proceeds of which would go to the purchase of baby heaters . |