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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university .
4 When you arrived in the Boys ' School , you quickly learned the rules .
5 Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books .
6 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 .
7 Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her .
8 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 .
9 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 ' .
10 That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too .
11 The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors .
12 It originated in the Mothers ' Clubs in a parish in the southern part of the city .
13 If he won in the members ' section , but still lost the ballot overall , due to heavy voting against him in the union section , he would cause a byelection .
14 He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo .
15 To Nick 's left sat Colonel Beamish who was looking as sceptical and impatient as he had in the stewards ' room at Ascot , and Lord Chester , a wealthy landowner who had ridden as an amateur until recently .
16 As one door would close , they would move on to another , never surrendering faith in the need for a popular paper that , in Hayling 's words , ‘ at the very least reflects the decent humanity in this country ’ , ’ he wrote in the journalists ' trade paper , UK Press Gazette .
17 He sat in the visitors ' chair and looked at me broodingly .
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