Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion that won through involved stopping the American companies ' strong-arm booking tactics and reserving a space in the domestic market for British films by requiring that exhibitors and distributors handle a proportion of domestic product . |
| 2 | When O'Neill returned from a meeting with Harold Wilson in London , he reacted in a manner guaranteed to confirm the Free Presbyterians ' claims that O'Neill 's policies were designed to achieve in the political sphere what the ecumenical movement was trying to do in inter denominational co-operation . |
| 3 | Age barriers also served to structure the young adults ' experience of the labour market . |
| 4 | Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys ' Schweppes debut . |
| 5 | Teenager Barbara Sleeman made an explosive start when she decided to open an exclusive ladies ' golfwear company , ON THE GREENS . |
| 6 | This afternoon we went to see a new workers ' housing estate and visited some homes . |
| 7 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 8 | For example , Felicity , who had attended an independent girls ' school where all the teaching staff were women , said : |
| 9 | In addition , as the therapist had suggested , she had contacted the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to find out about evening classes . |
| 10 | There were four of them ; they had shared the dead youths ' clothing between them . |
| 11 | Finally he had exhausted the new pilots ' capacity for fear . |
| 12 | Top dealers with plummy accents who had passed the registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination were primed to speak with the inspectors . |
| 13 | Later , Miles had carved the dead seals ' faces on the two killing clubs to honour the animals ' sacrifice . |
| 14 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 15 | PUFFS Co-ordinator Sue Grant said they intended to make the unofficial smokers ' carriage a daily feature until the ban is dropped . |