Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said bus companies had written agreements with local authorities , saying the councils would fully reimburse them for pensioners ' travel concessions . |
| 2 | ‘ We may be equal , but we 're not the same and we should bring our own , different , talents to work , not shoehorn ourselves into men 's positions . |
| 3 | Of course , there have been plenty of Lions ' tours which brought no such dividend , 1951 being a case in point . |
| 4 | Since I said , why send money to Great Ormond Street when there was plenty of children 's things local ? |
| 5 | Ear-tagged lambs traceable back to source at every stage will be delivered by approved hauliers to processors , who will check them against retailers ' specifications . |
| 6 | The final thing I want to say to you about children 's services is , we have to , we have , having great trouble breaking into prevention . |
| 7 | He had none of Monks ' clever ideas . |
| 8 | It is possible that the two women are one and the same , or that there is a serial killer on the prowl , but as none of Barbs 's friends or neighbours give a damn where she is , her continuing absence occasions little comment . |
| 9 | ‘ Why were you in Barbs 's garden ? ’ asked Camille . |
| 10 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 11 | Add less sugar and salt ( none to babies ' food ) . |
| 12 | White South Africa had taken the black men , herded them into workers ' barracks and townships , kept them supplied with beer and prostitutes , then sent them back home with their rand , their tuberculosis and their venereal disease . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Chadwick , ’ Celia learned , 'was a great one for roses ' , and ‘ Mr Chadwick , he liked his veg . |
| 14 | For instance , difference theorists dislike the implication that everything about women 's behaviour can be traced simply to their subordination , and this resistance has a lot to recommend it . |
| 15 | The worst one was when we were doing one on Women 's Studies and I said look , let's have your title and let's have some kind of format . |
| 16 | It would not surprise most linguists to find them in women 's speech , because they are absolutely normal in all speech . |
| 17 | Substituting for the father , Novella exemplifies a certain them in women 's history which can illuminate changing attitudes to the female production of art . |
| 18 | you can use them in Children 's World ca n't you ? |
| 19 | ‘ Uh-huh , ’ she said , busying herself with miners ' lamps , old spectacle cases and various china oddments which had ‘ A souvenir of Cromer ’ stamped on the bottom . |
| 20 | The work led Russell himself to conclude that the teaching of the subject had no effect whatsoever on pupils ' political outlook . |
| 21 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 22 | ‘ His wife should come herself on women 's day ? |
| 23 | Dr Winnifred Cutler , director of the Athena Institute for Women 's Wellness in Philadelphia , discovered that if male pheromones could be attached to women who were n't having regular sex ( by extracting them from men and taping them to women 's upper lips ) then this worked to regulate periods almost as well as regular sex . |
| 24 | Similarly , where rules are incorporated by reference to some other document , there should be adequate reference to draw them to members ' attention . |
| 25 | This book takes the practical issues of the day and relates them to students ' training needs . |
| 26 | She was grinning as she said it , but he did n't take that in and yelled at her about Women 's Lib claptrap . |
| 27 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 28 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 29 | However , in July Mrs Singh phoned to ask whether I could go with her to Cedars ' open evening . |
| 30 | Had n't Helen kept him at arms ' length for months now ? |