Example sentences of "[noun] ' [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some festive favourites , including The Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand and Slade 's Merry Christmas Everybody were destined to become pop classics . |
| 2 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago when the Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand was number one . |
| 3 | Also , in October 1949 , the Communists ' who had been fighting in the Greek Civil War , ceased fighting . |
| 4 | Under the heading ‘ Money-Lenders ’ Baits ' he showed his readers how the cormorants attempted to lure them into their net — advertisements from loan merchants hiding behind grand names like The Clerical and Medical Bank , in all parts of Britain , none of whom saw fit to mention the rates of interest they would charge , and some specifying Without Sureties . |
| 5 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 6 | " These anti-partisan units are without exception completely compromised by open collaboration with the Germans ' he wrote , but he recommended that in view of the complexity of the situation they should not be " handed over to the Yugoslav army " but " should be disarmed and placed in refugee camps ! |
| 7 | Although their cars were not as good as the Germans ' he drove brilliantly and beat the Mercedes and Auto Unions at the Nurburgring in 1935 to win the German Grand Prix . |
| 8 | Firs ' we tie your han 's , leetle dog . ’ .. |
| 9 | By –passengers ' she meant those who travelled steerage . |
| 10 | Jus ' you go into Newry and make enquiries about that fancy new boat that 's all the talk of the papers . |
| 11 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 12 | But , in terms of the the actual vision screening itself erm , we 've iden , those people who 've been identified as V D U , V D U users ' we 've had about five hundred and fifty replies to that , from the V D U , V D U , users ' . |
| 13 | So , of the er , er yeah , of the people who were identified as being users ' , V D U users ' we 've had about eight percent of the replies have actually been returned , so we are chasing some . |
| 14 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
| 15 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 16 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
| 17 | She goes " get me a piece of waata " like that — but she jus ' makes me laugh … an' she speaks so fas ' she comes from Barbados she 's Barbadian , my dad 's Trinidadian . |
| 18 | Patients in psychiatric and mental handicap hospitals were frequently cared for by " nurses ' who had no training , some of whom did not even speak English . |
| 19 | I went to that at Jasons ' I think I 'll go and find that erm |