Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [art] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where had she gone after appearing in the Julians ' drive on Friday night ? |
| 2 | If you assumed this public culture reflected political actuality you would be living in a fools ' paradise , the reverse side of Thatcherland . |
| 3 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 4 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 5 | One day a member of staff found a man smoking in the girls ' dining room . |
| 6 | But one thing going in the prisoners ' favour is exactly that . |
| 7 | Most of these new arrivals had reached the area with the deliveries of Hurricanes by H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ as already recounted , and had thus been languishing in the Pilots ' Pool at Ismailia , awaiting posting to a unit . |
| 8 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 9 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 10 | Sitting in the Beans ' kitchen that sense began to come back to her ; not suddenly but slowly , a slow prickle of pity and curiosity , like life returning to a deadened limb . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman I would like to move the resolution in standing in the Conservatives ' name I would say that I would hope that erm the other side would er join with us in voting that through and certainly have no problem with the relevant resolution that Mr put forward . |
| 12 | The tide of ideas on the Left was flowing in the Communists ' favour and they did not have to resort to the often artificial tactics of " penetration " used since the early 1920s . |
| 13 | Brigadier Scott is taken to the Sergeants ' Mess to meet the Mess members , all of Whom have played vital parts either as instructors or in the administrative support of the recruits ' training , prior to lunching in the Officers ' Mess . |
| 14 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 15 | Alternatively , there would be great benefit in choosing someone working in the pupils ' locality e.g. a youth worker , a nurse , a pupil involved in the provision of a soup kitchen or the organisation of a pro-life cell . |