Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 2 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 3 | I looked at the passengers ' faces . |
| 4 | In the autumn of 1959 I was eleven , and I went to the girls ' grammar school down the road . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 8 | She stalked into the teachers ' room and returned with her cane . |
| 9 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 10 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | When you arrived in the Boys ' School , you quickly learned the rules . |
| 13 | She walked past the nurses ' cubicle unchecked . |
| 14 | She glanced at the winners ' enclosure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you looked at the Trees ' upper halves ; at the streaming leaf-hair and the mischievous faces of the Silver Birches and the wise , implacable solemnity of the Oaks and the cool , wanton beauty of the Beeches , you could very nearly see similarities to Human features and Human characteristics . |
| 17 | Belinda said hello to one of them , Judy Stack , whom she knew from the nurses ' home , then sat on a rather uncomfortable chair in the corner as Faye was examined by a junior obstetrician . |
| 18 | and then erm turning right you went past the ladies ' cloakroom and before you got to the door out into erm Grimwich Street |
| 19 | She looked at the birds ' eggs on her table , the books on the desk near the bed . |
| 20 | Before leaving the station she went to the Ladies ' to check up on her appearance . |
| 21 | If the conviction is upheld , the hotel queen 's new palace could be a women 's prison in Connecticut , about 20 miles from the $11 million mansion she refurbished at the taxpayers ' expense by charging repairs to her business . |
| 22 | She stayed in the Ladies ' room for a long time , amongst girls fainting , and weeping and grieving over laddered stockings , and when she emerged he had disappeared . |
| 23 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |
| 24 | So , on a dull and drizzly morning we headed for the dogs ' home . |
| 25 | We stopped at the farmers ' market for cheese and grapes . |
| 26 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 27 | I remember one Monday morning , just after we went into the Boys ' School , he came into Standard One and brought with him , from our class , Jim Weeks , who had been absent when the registers were called . |
| 28 | The same went for all the climbing and jumping across the back court , over high walls and coal bunkers , that we did in the girls ' gang . |
| 29 | We then drove inland , through the Buller Gorge and Murchison and up to St. Arnaud , a village at the head of Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park , where we stayed at the backpackers ' , the only accommodation available . |
| 30 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |