Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] ' [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 2 | John Warburton , a teacher for the progressive Inner London Education Authority , refused to lie to his pupils and was sacked ; Louise Boychuk , sacked for wearing a ‘ Lesbians Ignite ’ badge at her work as an insurance clerk , found that the Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed with her employers ' right to sack her ; John Saunders , who had never wished to tell anyone at work that he was gay , found that the E.A.T . |
| 3 | In that case the employees , who were warehousemen employed by a company which supplied nuts and bolts , wrote to ten of their employers ' suppliers informing them that they intended to start up in business on their own trading in nuts and bolts , and asking for details of their products . |
| 4 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 5 | They have been close ever since their parents ' divorce drew them together . |
| 6 | Home burials are particularly important to children , partly because it helps them to understand that the pet has gone forever and also because seeing their parents ' sorrow teaches them that it 's normal and acceptable to grieve . |
| 7 | Adjustment to their customers ' needs compelled them to establish an international presence that had hitherto been unnecessary . |
| 8 | In both of the novels a heroine is involved for committing herself to do something important enough only as itself for example , Elizabeth Bennet walks three fatiguing miles to Netherfield to pay a visit to her ill sister ; Fanny Price opposes her cousins ' attempts to include her in amateur theatricals . |
| 9 | Robson played 44 of Coventry 's 50 games and none of his rare absences was connected with the pelvic injury which at one stage of his Hammers ' career restricted him to 13 games in three years . |
| 10 | She is a stiff bundle of rags , arching this way and that , legs clamped together against his knees ' efforts to prise them apart , arms straining him back up off her body . |
| 11 | Yet the most unnerving revelation of this book is less the bit that shocked Mr Teicher — his colleagues ' attempts to make him a scapegoat in the Irangate arms-for-hostages scandal — and more his portrayal of the muddle that characterises America 's dealings with this explosive region . |
| 12 | Growing up is hard to do , when the terms of your parents ' will keeps you in a perpetual state of childhood . |
| 13 | Above all , experiencing our parents ' death forces us to face the fact of our own mortality . |
| 14 | Nearly all of these are modern chemicals we have thoughtlessly introduced into our cats ' environment to help us in various ways . |
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