Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [coord] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsey followed her out , pausing at the reception desk to hand in her mail and the patients ' cards . |
| 2 | In and out of their feet and the horses ' hooves scurried the hounds in cheerful disorder . |
| 3 | The name by which it became known — " The Asylum for the Support and Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor " — describes its character and the founders ' intentions . |
| 4 | The craftsmen set to work , the people pour in their gifts , and the tabernacle , its fittings and the priests ' robes are all completed exactly as God has laid down . |
| 5 | Can all those bracing ‘ think European ’ messages have fallen on completely stony ground , and were Lord Young , Alan Sugar and Sir John Harvey-Jones just wasting their breath and the tax-payers ' money ? |
| 6 | She curled herself round more tightly , torn now between her life and the Africans ' voices , and slept . |
| 7 | In the early years of the twentieth century it was noted for its hardiness and the bullocks ' ability to feed to heavy weights , while the cows won many Royal Show prizes for butterfat yields , though the quantity of milk was low . |
| 8 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 9 | The gap between your recommendations and the manufacturers ' seems a large one . |