Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] in [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night .
2 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 .
3 In 877 he imposed a levy on both peasants and nobles which discriminated in the peasants ' favour and seems to have provoked noble disaffection .
4 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 .
5 When you arrived in the Boys ' School , you quickly learned the rules .
6 The women who worked in the butchers ' section distinguished themselves the most during that very special battle .
7 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 .
8 Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her .
9 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 .
10 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 ' .
11 That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too .
12 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 .
13 It originated in the Mothers ' Clubs in a parish in the southern part of the city .
14 He died in the Bridgemans ' house in Teddington , where he made his nuncupative will on or about 27 September 1674 , leaving all his books and his best hat to his brother Philip .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 He sat in the visitors ' chair and looked at me broodingly .
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