Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 2 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 3 | This required the ATB staff to have a good knowledge of the family situations of wives attending courses and to arrange course times that fitted in with the families ' needs and routines . |
| 4 | I now felt far more confident and comfortable knowing that I could refuse to go along with the guards ' antics if they really upset me . |
| 5 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 6 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 7 | On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt . |
| 8 | Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier . |
| 9 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
| 10 | The sun was high in the sky and beating down on the mourners ' heads . |
| 11 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 12 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 13 | Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf . |
| 14 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 15 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 16 | Then Mellor carted his wife and young sons down to the Halls ' home in Upper Beeding , Sussex , for a stage-managed ‘ happy families ’ photo-call . |
| 17 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 18 | Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept . |
| 19 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 20 | While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life . |
| 21 | Even Egyptians , whose soldiers may well be sent in on the allies ' side , hate the spectacle of a fellow Muslim , a defier of Zionists , being shot up by America 's whizz-bang weaponry . |
| 22 | If not , then where are our authorities in all this in respecting the petitioners ' wishes ? |
| 23 | If not , then where are our authorities in all this in respecting the petitioners ' wishes ? |
| 24 | And when the first visors were introduced they made the heavy hats flop down over the troops ' faces . |
| 25 | It would probably be better to drop in at The Times ' party , see who he could find to have dinner with and take pot luck in a town not noted for its restaurants . |
| 26 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |
| 27 | After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair . |
| 28 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
| 29 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 30 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |