Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 2 | If Mr. Howell 's argument is correct , the school , even though over-subscribed , could not have adopted these sibling and proximity criteria in deciding which of the applicants ' parental preferences were to succeed and which fail . |
| 3 | All praise was given to Dean Acheson , the conference chairman , for his handling of the ‘ Reds ’ ; and there were lurid tales told by a reporter who smuggled himself into the Soviets ' rented mansion disguised as a plumber ( ‘ socks and panties dangled … orange peels littered the floors … five to seven beds had been squeezed into every bedroom … ’ ) . |
| 4 | ( Remember , none of The Smiths ' naïve early predictions failed to materialize ) . |
| 5 | Then crouching low , she squeezed herself through the hens ' low archway , and into the dark warm gloom of their hut . |
| 6 | He apologised for trying to blame them over the Tories ' economic blunders . |
| 7 | Remembering that Peter Suvarov had , himself , taken part in that Revolution , Julia asked him about the Russians ' probable intentions . |
| 8 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |
| 9 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 10 | He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties . |
| 11 | Their opponents , lacking the shrewd tactical direction and sense of purpose that Chapman provided , were slow to arm themselves against the Cobblers ' swift , sudden onslaughts . |