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 . |