Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked where I lived , I replied that I was staying in my parents ' flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 2 | A study of some West Riding parish registers has found that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , farming was the only occupation where more than half of sons remained in their fathers ' places of residence . |
| 3 | Remember that wives or children travelling alone must have their own passport , and that newly arrived infants must be included in their parents ' passport in advance of their departure date . |
| 4 | Snobbery might be innate in their parents ' way of life , but it could never be admitted . |
| 5 | The babies born to Welsh and English parents were , in contrast , sometimes placed in cots in their parents ' rooms for a period of two to three months , and then encouraged ( close to the peak age for the sudden infant death syndrome ) to ‘ get used ’ to sleeping alone , where possible in their own rooms . |
| 6 | Hufton notes more surprising instances of widows continuing in their husbands ' occupation as gaolers . |
| 7 | Sixty-five percent of wives were happy to attend in their husbands ' place with the remainder not enthusiastic . |
| 8 | Some , who may be kinder , will find a way of weeping in their wives ' arms without explaining the cause . |
| 9 | The ways in which students ' progress through Compact are monitored will vary from Compact to Compact . |
| 10 | Similarly , the impact of GIST may have been as great in schools which had no contact with the project at all , because of the changing climate of opinion in which girls ' under-achievement in science and technology came to be seen as a serious educational issue . |
| 11 | The aim of the investigation is to interpret the legislation in consultation with the commission and brewers ; to examine the way in which brewers ' responses to the regulation are affecting or could affect clubs ; to assess the implications for the social role of clubs of this commercial regulation ; to examine similar effects of the extending of the free-market philosophy of the EEC ; and to identify shortcomings or inadequacies in the legal provision to cover social divergences between Britain and Europe . |
| 12 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 13 | Kate knew that the wound was still as raw and bleeding in her parents ' mind as her own . |
| 14 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 15 | But Pete did stay around , and they live together in her parents ' house with their nine-month-old baby . |
| 16 | Young Sarah stayed on in her parents ' house behind the hill , only one of a number of poor people in that humble street . |
| 17 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 18 | If the ‘ Free Church Movement ’ was bound up , at least in its leaders ' minds with the cause of union , it was also bound up with politics , at least in the minds of its supporters . |
| 19 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 20 | Victim James Monday found a loaded .38 calibre handgun in his parents ' bedroom in Stockton , California . |
| 21 | Thus did T'sao rid himself of the most able man in his enemies ' camp for no greater price than the life of a condemned man . |
| 22 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |
| 23 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 24 | It was only when seigneurial justice or administration broke down , or otherwise went awry , that the king could act directly to intervene in his vassals ' conduct of their affairs . |
| 25 | They piled up bricks and pulled out nails in our builders ' yard of a back garden , had a roaring bonfire every other night , and went to Nan 's for a bath . |
| 26 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 27 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |