Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 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 | Not only was there overwhelming support on the picket line ( from trade unionists and from many feminists who identified with the women 's movement rather than any particular trade union ) but on 15 June local postal workers at Cricklewood started a boycott of Grunwick mail . |
| 12 | She came into the working-men 's club one lunchtime and got her bottle of stout . |
| 13 | Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward . |
| 14 | Jennifer Capriati , who stormed onto the women 's pro tour at the age of 14 last year , is a product of both the Macci and Saddlebrook academies . |
| 15 | She went into the men 's robing room by mistake when she put on her gown but no one seemed to mind . |
| 16 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 17 | And certainly by what she did with the women 's support group I think she was . |
| 18 | Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books . |
| 19 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |
| 20 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 21 | The hareems , including ours , started to arrive about 9.30 and we drifted into the women 's majlis dressed in our best . |
| 22 | The family were nearing Cork on their way home from a holiday in England and Wales — during which they called on the children 's grandparents in Milton Keynes . |
| 23 | How do you think they felt about the children 's adventures : a ) immediately afterwards b ) when they met Flupper c ) when they found out about super penicillin ? |
| 24 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |
| 25 | The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded . |
| 26 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 27 | He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo . |