Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] their [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do few children enter school with a wide repertoire of nursery or religious songs learnt at their parents ' knees , but many primary schools lack a full-time music specialist . |
| 2 | And the kind of criticisms split down the middle , as well , on furnishings , that by and large men were far more concerned about the , the lack of durability in modern furnishings compared with their parents ' , whereas women were n't so concerned with that . |
| 3 | The dogs would have chips coded with their owners ' names and addresses implanted below the fur . |
| 4 | A study of some West Riding parish registers has found that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , farming was the only occupation where more than half of sons remained in their fathers ' places of residence . |
| 5 | Surprisingly few widows had occupational pensions derived from their husbands ' entitlements . |
| 6 | According to Eva the children identified with their parents ' commitment so there were few grumbles . |
| 7 | They report that 9 out of 31 divorced women and 11 out of 33 divorced men returned to their parents ' home when their first marriage ended . |
| 8 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 9 | Sometimes princes acted on their fathers ' behalf . |
| 10 | In the early afternoon , Allied reserve divisions and tanks passed through their comrades ' lines and by about 15.10 the ridge in its entirety was securely held and all objectives taken . |