Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |
| 2 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
| 3 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 4 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 5 | Trafford Park food companies headed by Kelloggs , Brooke Bond and Walls formed a thirteen food company group which opposed the incinerators and lobbied against the campaign handing in over 40,000 signatures and over 600 submissions were sent to the UDC prior to the date of the decision , including one from the Students ' Union concerned that the University was directly in line with the prevailing wind from the proposed site . |
| 6 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 7 | He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties . |
| 8 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 9 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 10 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 11 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 12 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 13 | Drinking Irish whisky by herself in the Ladies ' Cloakroom ? " |