Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Football : Advertisement for small beer : Joe Lovejoy reports on a game which failed to quench the purists ' thirsts |
2 | There were active liberal or socialist-influenced tenants ' and farmers ' movements in the interwar period which sought to improve the farmers ' lot . |
3 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
4 | She negotiated a fee of $1,800 a week from which she had to pay the Girls ' salaries of $45 each , netting considerably more for herself . |
5 | The Government had capitulated to vested interests — the army , the garimpeiros and the Governor of Roraima who wanted to keep the miners ' vote . |
6 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
7 | " We started falling out over it , so we decided to form a tenants ' movement , " one of the tenants told me . |
8 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
9 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |