Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 2 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 3 | I retreated to the men 's room and took the film out of the binoculars-camera , and wrote a short note to go with it . |
| 4 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 5 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 6 | I looked at the passengers ' faces . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1959 I was eleven , and I went to the girls ' grammar school down the road . |
| 8 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jerome Blum assigns the tsar pride of place in the list of factors which contributed to the serfs ' emancipation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Moving on , I am sorry we need to , to nineteen forty five which saw Save The Children 's first involvement with pre-school playgroups here in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | In 877 he imposed a levy on both peasants and nobles which discriminated in the peasants ' favour and seems to have provoked noble disaffection . |
| 23 | She stalked into the teachers ' room and returned with her cane . |
| 24 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 1927 Conference heard a moving appeal on the issue from a miner 's wife who referred to the women 's support for male trade unionists during the 1926 General Strike : ‘ Surely you will not turn the women down on this question because it was the women who stood four-square with you in your dispute ? ’ |
| 27 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
| 30 | I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left |