Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun prp] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 2 | It arrived five minutes later when Glenn Hunter superbly headed in a Burrows ' corner . |
| 3 | In the 90th minute Payton suffered the agony of a three-yard miss when Paul Wilkinson headed on a Phillips ' corner . |
| 4 | At ground level the street was lined with traditional little native shops , most of them carpenters , it seemed ; and as they came through the Tentmakers ' Bazaar , with its gay awnings and saddle-cloth and leather work , they saw ahead of them in the archway of the gate the gleam of the blue tiles of the tiny Dervish mosque . |
| 5 | I followed them out into the car park and sat , miserably , in the back of Quigley 's car as , in a mood of forced cheerfulness , we drove towards the Quigleys ' house behind Mrs Danby 's Rolls . |
| 6 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 7 | But when Flavia turned into the Fourniers ' drive she saw that she had been spared that errand as well , for there , shining , immobile , unconcerned , stood the long car . |
| 8 | Travis raced to the Gormans ' cottage and with great difficulty told the distressed couple what had happened . |
| 9 | Meredith waved him goodbye from the gate , watching as he turned outside the Haynes ' cottage and until he had driven off out of sight towards Fenniwick 's garage and the B road turn . |
| 10 | I walked into the Shakespeares ' kitchen one evening , and there was Anne , with a red , angry face , shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 11 | If you would like more information on how we coped with the Lloyds ' slope and how you could do the same with yours , write enclosing a stamped addressed envelope to The Horticultural Trades Association , PO Box 56 , Reading , Berkshire RG7 5JJ . |
| 12 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 13 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 14 | He died in the Bridgemans ' house in Teddington , where he made his nuncupative will on or about 27 September 1674 , leaving all his books and his best hat to his brother Philip . |
| 15 | Mrs Edwards went to the Cheshires ' base in Germany last month to receive her son 's United Nations service medal . |
| 16 | He ran like the wind down the narrow road that went to the Toops ' house . |
| 17 | Chaos was prevailing , in which part of the ritual was to douse everyone who emerged from the Bisus ' hut with buckets of water . |
| 18 | Baroness Strange said during the Lords ' debate in February : |
| 19 | She refered to comments made in the High Court by Mr Justice Ward , who said of the Gojkovics ' success : ‘ This is a story of high achievement and , many would think , glorious success . |
| 20 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 21 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 22 | At Alice Fernie and Stanley Curtis who stood at the Fernies ' gate . |
| 23 | Giles Aplin remained at the Hankses ' cottage until Tom returned from his work at the manor . |