Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] in [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | In 877 he imposed a levy on both peasants and nobles which discriminated in the peasants ' favour and seems to have provoked noble disaffection . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | When you arrived in the Boys ' School , you quickly learned the rules . |
5 | She stayed in the Ladies ' room for a long time , amongst girls fainting , and weeping and grieving over laddered stockings , and when she emerged he had disappeared . |
6 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |
7 | The same went for all the climbing and jumping across the back court , over high walls and coal bunkers , that we did in the girls ' gang . |
8 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
9 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
10 | The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors . |
11 | It originated in the Mothers ' Clubs in a parish in the southern part of the city . |
12 | If he won in the members ' section , but still lost the ballot overall , due to heavy voting against him in the union section , he would cause a byelection . |
13 | To Nick 's left sat Colonel Beamish who was looking as sceptical and impatient as he had in the stewards ' room at Ascot , and Lord Chester , a wealthy landowner who had ridden as an amateur until recently . |
14 | As one door would close , they would move on to another , never surrendering faith in the need for a popular paper that , in Hayling 's words , ‘ at the very least reflects the decent humanity in this country ’ , ’ he wrote in the journalists ' trade paper , UK Press Gazette . |
15 | He sat in the visitors ' chair and looked at me broodingly . |