Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 2 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 3 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
| 4 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 5 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 6 | For purely practical purposes , I deal with the artists ' money for recording and touring expenses . |
| 7 | I looked at the passengers ' faces . |
| 8 | Most nights I go to the miners ' welfare or a pub , or a club . |
| 9 | In the autumn of 1959 I was eleven , and I went to the girls ' grammar school down the road . |
| 10 | Then I went to the carers ' meeting [ at the day centre ] and there was somebody there from CAB and they said ‘ You should have been getting it ages ago ’ . |
| 11 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 12 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 13 | ‘ I agree with the Childminders ' Association on that . |
| 14 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
| 15 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 16 | In their analyses of the understanding " displays " of next turns , Cameron and Taylor argue , the conversation analysts fail to follow their own prescriptions , which require them to look to the participants ' analysis displayed in the next turn . |
| 17 | What you mean like the boys ' |
| 18 | She stalked into the teachers ' room and returned with her cane . |
| 19 | Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so |
| 20 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 21 | What do you think of the miners ' strike ? was my first ever searching enquiry . |
| 22 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 23 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 24 | The Alternative Prospectus , Welfare , Overseas , Mature and Postgraduate Student handbooks are just part of the information service you receive from the Students ' Association before arriving . |
| 25 | And what kind of work did you do with the tenants ' association ? |
| 26 | I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left |
| 27 | When you arrived in the Boys ' School , you quickly learned the rules . |
| 28 | She walked past the nurses ' cubicle unchecked . |
| 29 | She glanced at the winners ' enclosure . |
| 30 | One of her hobbies was anaesthetics , and she subscribed to an anaesthetists ' journal in which she had seen an advertisement for a chemist who outfitted doctors ' waiting-rooms and surgeries . |