Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 2 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 3 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 4 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 5 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 6 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 7 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 8 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 9 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 10 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 11 | The thirty days ' standard he applies to his suppliers is the thirty days standard he expects from his customers . |
| 12 | In all probability , however , in the modern solicitors ' partnership it will have been agreed to leave goodwill out of account ( see below ) . |
| 13 | I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited . |