Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 2 | The magic castle that is London 's St Pancras Station rests upon a forest of unseen arches , forming a vault which in the railways ' heydays , from the 1870S to the 1920s , housed the thousands of barrels of beer that arrived daily from Burton-on-Trent . |
| 3 | All over Orkney during the time the children were away from their homes , prayers were said for them in churches of all denominations and at prayer meetings , and despite the torment they went through , none of the parents ' faiths wavered . |
| 4 | None of the patients ' spouses or carer had been shown or told how to give the drops . |
| 5 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 6 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
| 7 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 8 | The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown . |
| 9 | This one and the next , Chalk Farm , were tiled in white and buff , reminding her of the servants ' bathrooms at Temple Stephen . |
| 10 | Grumbling , Tracey followed her to the non-smokers ' seats . |
| 11 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
| 12 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 13 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
| 14 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 15 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 16 | What about the neighbours ' trees ? |
| 17 | The crisis revealed , however , that the king 's war no longer had the wholehearted support of the community , and more ominously , that some members of the nobility were prepared to associate themselves with the commons ' demands for concessions and reforms . |
| 18 | What in the gods ' names ? |
| 19 | THE ECHO 'S reply to Tom Roberts ' recent letter forgets to mention that lots of the criminals ' victims are deprived of their freedom — pensioners too frightened to go for fear of being mugged , young girls afraid to walk the streets at night in fear of being raped . |