Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas , his elder brother , was fined as a recusant in 1646 , and little by little the Brydges ' fortune dwindled . |
| 2 | The Queen 's Highland castle retreat , set in 40,000 acres of heather and grouse moor , is effectively the Windsors ' family seat . |
| 3 | These problems are compounded by the weight of motor traffic — estimated at seven million vehicles per year — carried on the Alps ' narrow roads , which is exacerbating tree die-back due to acid rain . |
| 4 | Suddenly the Norths ' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it . |
| 5 | He was an ardent Presbyterian and supported all church activities , especially the Womens ' Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) , the Down With Drink Society , the YMCA , the YWCA and St Andrews 's Church . |
| 6 | Braithwaite , the Reverend T.E.O. She 'd seen , she averred , Amy , or anyway her car , coming down the Julians ' drive at about ten-thirty on Friday night . |
| 7 | Esther put down the Venables ' invitation , and turned into the room . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Provisionals ' unexpected return to Warrington to inflict wicked carnage was a means of underlining that wearying message . |
| 9 | Millwall were unbeaten at home and only the Canaries ' ability to metamorphose into a giant yellow sponge kept Teddy Sheringham and Tony Cascarino soaked in sweat and starved of success . |
| 10 | To the rear of the dome car there was only the Lorrimores ' private car , which I could hardly enter , so I retraced my steps , intending to retreat to my own roomette and watch the scenery do its stuff . |
| 11 | This uncle who was also presumably the uncle of er , not only the Rivers ' children , but would he also have been the uncle of Re Mrs Reed 's |
| 12 | Why does he wish to take away the Rathliners ' jobs ? |
| 13 | Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride . |
| 14 | Thus the Beatles ' song became the anthem for hippie activists , and a mock-up submarine was built to head a peace parade of 10,000 through New York City . |
| 15 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 16 | Blood tests revealed that she was not the Twiggs ' natural child . |
| 17 | Certainly not the Ketterings ' ancestors as they appeared to be mostly of sly Italian clerics . |
| 18 | The difficulty was the lack of system : local government 's lack ; not the Webbs ' ! |
| 19 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 20 | Annie Lennox 's first solo LP Diva ( an ironic title , she claims ) will comfortably pick up the Eurythmics ' many fans , but to me its high-quality designer soul has a sterile scent . |
| 21 | There was the handsome , twenty-year-old Warrant Officer Jean Navarre , who chalked up the Cigognes ' first victories at Verdun with a right-and-a-left over Fort Douaumont the day after its fall . |
| 22 | The pieces were put into ten different bags and driven away by Laing after he meticulously cleaned up the Manwarings ' house in Aldersley Gardens , Barking , east London , the jury was told . |
| 23 | It may however , be questioned , whether this role should be performed by a mixture of hereditary and life peers who make up the Lords ' membership or , indeed , whether there is an important role here at all . |
| 24 | In 1637 Laud attempted to impose his sacramental and ceremonial brand of English Protestantism on the rigidly Calvinist Scots , a move that precipitated both the Bishops ' War and a profound political crisis in England . |
| 25 | John Robertson scored both the Heriots ' tries and Henry Murray added both conversions . |
| 26 | According to Eugene , the band signed to Paperhouse ( also the Fannies ' first home , surely no coincidence ) to make one single , which expanded to a mini-album and wound up being ‘ Oomalama ’ . |
| 27 | Three weeks later the Gorengs ' son arrived . |
| 28 | In fact before the advent of Margaret Thatcher , Barbara Castle with her red hair and chic sense of fashion was probably the Commons ' leading lady . |
| 29 | Similarly , after passing through , in Keith Richard 's words , ‘ a heavily camp phase ’ , the Rolling Stones quickly widened out the Beatles ' androgyny into something at once more perverse and disturbing . |
| 30 | Folding her coat over the ornate wooden newel post at the foot of the stairs , she went through to the kitchen and the last task of the day , setting out the Copleys ' early-morning tray . |