Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they would n't find me , and I could plan my life and find a job and a flat and go home in six months ' time having proved I 'm adult and they 'll have to let go and let me do what I absolutely , passionately want to do with my life . |
| 2 | In Jenny 's situation , the dread of violence and the potential disintegration of her parents ' marriage has made her flee from any potential aggression . |
| 3 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 4 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 5 | The National Farmers ' Union has attacked it as ‘ unreasonable , unworkable and far too sweeping ’ . |
| 6 | The girls ' parents had held her in high regard and they had become firm friends . |
| 7 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 8 | Yet the tone of her telephone call to Swans ' Meadow had implied she knew nothing of Samantha 's abduction — or of what her kidnappers had demanded in return for her release . |