Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] the [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 I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco .
3 For purely practical purposes , I deal with the artists ' money for recording and touring expenses .
4 Most nights I go to the miners ' welfare or a pub , or a club .
5 I agree with the Childminders ' Association on that .
6 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 .
7 What you mean like the boys '
8 Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so
9 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 .
10 Now that mirror 's the one that you look into when you go in the ladies ' toilets .
11 We have a duty , as the authority that extracts money from the taxpayer and then spends it on buying services for the taxpayer , to ensure that every pound we spend on the taxpayers ' behalf buys as much as it possibly can .
12 However , there are wrong answers and these should be pointed out when they appear in the trainees ' work .
13 Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . "
14 They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures .
15 If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals .
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