Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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1 | But the Reverend was fiercely repressive of the children 's spirit , the food was very poor and the girls were often starved and cold . |
2 | One school was so impressed by the children 's positive reactions that they completely revamped the science work in the first two years to include more social and human applications of science . |
3 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
4 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
5 | They were also surprised by the children 's appetites . |
6 | THE end may be in sight for the annual Territorial Championship , whose post-Christmas slot is the least acceptable in the women 's fixture list . |
7 | THE end may be in sight for the annual Territorial Championship , whose post-Christmas slot is the least acceptable in the women 's fixture list . |
8 | The organisers had feared the ATP would withhold its officials , the most experienced in the men 's game . |
9 | The woods and walks surrounding the old Sussex manor house are peopled by children who died young ; the visitor , who is the narrator , is aware of them , but can not actually see them ; his hostess , who is vividly aware of the children 's presence , is blind . |
10 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
11 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
12 | Mr M was very impressed by the Children 's Panel system that , he said , seemed to take so much time and trouble to listen to , and about , the children . |