Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] ' [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after my divorce , I moved back into my parents ' home because I could n't cope with Anna Alone . |
| 2 | Many women are filled with trepidation at the thought of their husbands ' retirement because they just want to do nothing . |
| 3 | There , I learned , the churchyard was closed to burials , although her ashes might be interred — not in her parents ' grave as I had asked — but in the church 's garden of remembrance . |
| 4 | Rose 's Uncle Eustace , who lived upstairs in her parents ' home when she was a girl , was , incidentally , a staunch Methodist . |
| 5 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 6 | A Yorkshire pay clerk 's widow was able to play a ‘ big part ’ in her granddaughters ' upbringing because she lived next door across a common yard and could be ‘ always there ’ , in and out of the house . |
| 7 | It was her Achilles ' heel and he knew it . |
| 8 | A COMPUTER expert planted a ‘ logic bomb ’ programme in his employers ' system when he left the firm after a clash with the boss . |
| 9 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 10 | It was only when I saw a magazine produced by his students ' class that I relaxed . |
| 11 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 12 | Let us assume that you have reached the point in your synspilums ' development where you are setting up their permanent breeding quarters , probably using a 60″ × 18″ × 18″ tank or larger ; you might just about scrape by with a 48″ , but this is not really recommended . |
| 13 | Always be very aware of your childrens ' reaction when you tell them a particular babysitter is coming . |
| 14 | The next four paragraphs are important in the committee 's scheme of things and I must ask your Lordships ' indulgence while I quote them in full : |
| 15 | It is enough for me to say that , on the basis of those two cases , the arguments of the two councils in the Stoke-on-Trent case struck your Lordships as being very powerful , but not sufficiently powerful to persuade your Lordships ' House that it need not refer the matter to the European Court of Justice under article 177 . |