Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds .
2 In its formal reading of the judgment on March 27 , the Court of Appeal vindicated the three appeal judges , led by Lord Lane , who in 1987 had dismissed the mens ' appeals , saying that the scientific issues were not the same .
3 However , it was reported the following day that talks had broken down and the employers had stopped the strikers ' wages .
4 He agreed the team had infringed the defendants ' rights when they wrote a book on the case .
5 It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning .
6 On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance .
7 Undefined neurological diseases , which in retrospect might have been Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , had affected the patients ' fathers , who had died at age 68 and 71 respectively .
8 When the congress opened on Feb. 19 Harilaos Florakis , appointed president of the central committee on his resignation as general secretary in July 1989 and the party 's leader since 1973 , had raised the reformists ' hopes with his unexpected announcement that he now wanted " to be a simple foot-soldier in the party " .
9 Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair .
10 It had been Footballer of the Year Waddle who had resurrected the Owls ' hopes with a 68th minute equaliser after Ian Wright 's 30th goal of the season 12 minutes before half-time had been just reward for Arsenal 's early domination .
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