Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm what , what was the feeling that came over to you from the tenants ' group at the time ? |
| 2 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
| 3 | Robin Smith 's power play against India at Perth ( Week 1 ) and the demolition job England did on Pakistan at Adelaide ( Week 2 ) put them into the favourites ' spot at the same time as Australia absorbed one stunning setback after another , alleviated only by the thrilling one-run victory over India at Brisbane . |
| 4 | She took me into the nurses ' changing-room . |
| 5 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I talked to them in the Friends ' Meeting House on a dark and stormy summer night . |
| 8 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 9 | Perhaps he kept such books at Castle Street , or read them in the Advocates ' Library . |
| 10 | The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown . |
| 11 | They also deny taking nude photographs of the girls , now aged eight , six and four , while they themselves were naked , and showing them to the girls ' mother . |
| 12 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 13 | All you would have to do would be to lead them to the smugglers ' rendezvous and supervise the action . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast . |
| 15 | This one and the next , Chalk Farm , were tiled in white and buff , reminding her of the servants ' bathrooms at Temple Stephen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He judged Asquith 's sense of probity correctly-meeting him in the Travellers ' Club later , the Liberal leader said ‘ You have done quite right . ’ |
| 18 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 19 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |
| 20 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 21 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 22 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 23 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 24 | She followed her to the ladies ' washroom . |
| 25 | Grumbling , Tracey followed her to the non-smokers ' seats . |
| 26 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 27 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
| 28 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine . |