Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The polytechnics have responded to the universities ' attempts to recruit CDP members by demanding a merger deadline — probably April 1993 . |
| 2 | The Arabs from Spidex , who set up the deal , have vanished with the Iranians ' money and , they suspect , their arms shipment . |
| 3 | Up to 73 Yanomami Indians have been killed by a group of garimpeiros , illegal miners who have moved into the Indians ' reserve in the Amazonian forests on the borders of Brazil and Venezuela . |
| 4 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 5 | MANCHESTER United have emerged as the bookies ' clear favourites to lift the Premier League title . |
| 6 | What will happen to nurses who have trained at the taxpayers ' expense in the national health service but who , increasingly , find themselves unable to get a job after three years ' training ? |