Example sentences of "[pron] in the [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The magic castle that is London 's St Pancras Station rests upon a forest of unseen arches , forming a vault which in the railways ' heydays , from the 1870S to the 1920s , housed the thousands of barrels of beer that arrived daily from Burton-on-Trent . |
2 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
3 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
4 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
5 | Perhaps he kept such books at Castle Street , or read them in the Advocates ' Library . |
6 | Drinking Irish whisky by herself in the Ladies ' Cloakroom ? " |
7 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
8 | He judged Asquith 's sense of probity correctly-meeting him in the Travellers ' Club later , the Liberal leader said ‘ You have done quite right . ’ |
9 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
10 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
11 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
12 | What in the gods ' names ? |
13 | Neo-Malthusianism was further attacked in ways already discussed in Chapter 2 , but also drew what in the authors ' opinion was a misplaced and utopian analysis from the Marxist literature based solely on a critique of bourgeois ideology , without serious attention being given to the effects of rapid population growth in any social formation , transitional to socialism or towards any other social order . |
14 | Behrend who entertained us in the Officers ' Mess for an evening meal and breakfast . |