Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " 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 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | As the sells his beers to the free trade and to national brewers ' pubs he has noticed both the swingeing price increases imposed by the brewing giants and the reaction among their tenants . |
| 7 | ‘ Optioning ’ , they call it ; nicking best-selling authors ' plot-lines we call it , but increasingly novels have formed the bedrock of Hollywood 's biggest grossing films . |
| 8 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 9 | You know they were really , but you see , in the , in , in the to modern womens ' favour you see , these women had n't got anything like we have today . |
| 10 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 11 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 12 | I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited . |