Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 2 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 3 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 4 | In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software . |
| 5 | They agreed with the Electrical Contractors ' Association at an early stage that they would operate on ‘ fair and unsubsidised ’ commercial lines . |
| 6 | He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals ' executive committee . |
| 7 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
| 8 | In the days following the crash controversy arose over the Indian authorities ' refusal to allow European investigators access to either the " black box " cockpit voice recordings or the digital flight recorder . |
| 9 | He also guested on The Bad Seeds ' ‘ Kicking Against The Pricks ’ . |
| 10 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 11 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 12 | Gerry went into the big boys ' class and Julia and I into the kindergarten where infants of three flew past us effortlessly . |
| 13 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 14 | Transexual Derek Arnell , 28 , underwent hormone transplants and breast implants and was months away from completing the transformation when he went on a fateful girls ' night out . |
| 15 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 16 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 17 | When we consider the more general conclusions that emerged from the other interactionists ' concern with ‘ the labellers ’ , the divergence becomes even more apparent . |
| 18 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 19 | This same interpretation appeared in the Irish bishops ' next statement in mid-June . |
| 20 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 21 | Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union could be equally disillusioning , of course , and when the Governor of the Bank of England , Robin Leigh Pemberton , spoke to the Overseas Bankers ' Club in February 1990 on lending to East Europe , he put his call for caution in the context of the losses sustained in the South . |
| 22 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 23 | We both know about farming — we even met at a Young Farmers ' dance ! |
| 24 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 25 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | The estimable Anderson spoke half-truths as his friend and fellow bag-carrier , Billy Gunn , now explained as he sat on a green caddies ' bench and waited for the call to duty . |