Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , we 've worked hard on trying to get it in everywhere , into peoples ' notices and we 've linked up with Art Week quite well , as well . |
| 2 | In such cases the court will , when giving reasons for striking out and after hearing the parties ' representatives if they wish , indicate who in its view is to blame for the delay , thus assisting the process of professional disciplinary sanctions and the pursuit of compensation by litigants . |
| 3 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 4 | Directors of limited companies are not personally liable for their companies ' debts unless you get a guarantee from them . |
| 5 | It 's for this reason that many of the shop stewards ' conferences that we 've convened in the last year have been pressing a policy of consolidating bonus pay into the basic rates and we 've achieved some small success in this in building brick and in one or two other industries . |
| 6 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 7 | Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so |
| 8 | The government refused to agree to the Indians ' demand that it abandon its militarized " security zone " on the Peruvian frontier , and pass a constitutional amendment recognizing the country as " multi-cultural and multi-national " . |
| 9 | But it seems that that is n't what 's being taught , and therefore , in information about that comes , well either via your own experience or talking with friends or reading womens ' magazines or I mean whe , where do we actually get our education from ? |
| 10 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 11 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 12 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 13 | It 's always been a workers ' day and I hope it will remain so . |
| 14 | It looks like any high street sweatshop except for the light streaming through the huge windows looking across Paris , the dummies bearing the names an exact shapes of various famous models and customers , and the quiet pride in the workers ' faces as they attach elaborately-tooled gold leather to a bustier , hand-embroidered velvet details to a pocket flap , a mink trim to an underskirt . |
| 15 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 16 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 17 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 18 | If you have paid six full years ' contributions before you cease payments , the Society will make your policy paid-up , leaving the units purchased to remain invested until such time you make a request to encash them . |
| 19 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 20 | Many would-be claimants are so afraid of going into solicitors ' offices that they try the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau ( CAB ) first . |
| 21 | Most treat the position as purely ceremonial , but they can actively preside over their courts ' proceedings if they choose , and in recent years a few have done so . |
| 22 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 23 | According to the Arable Research Centres ' Justin Smith , some growers in Bedfordshire have been so disappointed with the insect pollinators ' efforts that they have ploughed up their crops to put in linseed or leave fields fallow . |
| 24 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 25 | Shop-stewards can fail to support black workers or can participate in employers ' discrimination because they know the prejudiced opinions of their members and feel that they can not afford to lose their support . |
| 26 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 27 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 28 | This pattern is made not only by the dancers ' feet as they move over the surface but also by the dancers ' bodies as they move through space . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman would know if he had addressed as many farmers ' organisations as I have that the first question farmers ask is how we can deal with the uncertainty of the MacSharry proposals , which now confront us . |
| 30 | Despite the firm figures in the community care plan ( see table ) , and social services managers ' confidence that they know the level of need in the city , he thinks they know little . |