Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the latter , the Association arranged the travel and accommodation for the fifty strong British contingent which included a National Workers ' Sports Association team , a group of Clarion cyclists , and spectators . |
| 2 | And now — ’ she made a typical high-jumpers ' gesture , that which marks them out from all other athletes , raising her arms and stretching her torso , as if taking off to challenge that dappled crossbar . |
| 3 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 4 | And the very day we were with her she opened a new Citizens ' Advice Bureau in Beccles with considerable aplomb — no easy task after SHE fashion team had stunned the locals by setting up an ironing board in the middle of the town car park and giving Christine 's purple suit a quick press on the spot . |
| 5 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |
| 6 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
| 7 | While there existed a small women 's civil rights organization , the Liga Femenina Salvadorena , whose members were from the impatient middle classes , it could not be described as a broad women 's suffrage movement . |
| 8 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 9 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |