Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
2 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
3 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
4 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
5 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |