Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 9 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |