Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 … ’ ) .
3 Then crouching low , she squeezed herself through the hens ' low archway , and into the dark warm gloom of their hut .
4 He apologised for trying to blame them over the Tories ' economic blunders .
5 Remembering that Peter Suvarov had , himself , taken part in that Revolution , Julia asked him about the Russians ' probable intentions .
6 Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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