Example sentences of "[noun] ' [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 2 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |
| 3 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 4 | A large number of lower attainers treat decimals as whole numbers , a strategy that " works ' when they are written to the same number of decimal places . |
| 5 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 6 | In earlier decades — say , from the 1950s to the 1970s — most but not all college students were secondary school-leavers — now called " traditional students ' because they arrive at college via the traditional route from school . |
| 7 | Most prisoners are badly tortured and forced to sign unread confessions ' before they are passed to the state prison . |
| 8 | That 's Alices ' cos it was . |
| 9 | I am very sensitive to my hon. Friend 's reference to Warren Hastings ' because it was Edmund Burke , a kinsman of mine , who prosecuted him over that length of time . |