Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.

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1 I retreated to the men 's room and took the film out of the binoculars-camera , and wrote a short note to go with it .
2 No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it
3 During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children .
4 When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door .
5 I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself .
6 She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her .
7 She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university .
8 She came into the working-men 's club one lunchtime and got her bottle of stout .
9 Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward .
10 She went into the men 's robing room by mistake when she put on her gown but no one seemed to mind .
11 And certainly by what she did with the women 's support group I think she was .
12 Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books .
13 During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica .
14 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
15 The hareems , including ours , started to arrive about 9.30 and we drifted into the women 's majlis dressed in our best .
16 The family were nearing Cork on their way home from a holiday in England and Wales — during which they called on the children 's grandparents in Milton Keynes .
17 How do you think they felt about the children 's adventures : a ) immediately afterwards b ) when they met Flupper c ) when they found out about super penicillin ?
18 And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity .
19 The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded .
20 When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel .
21 He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo .
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