Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 2 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 3 | Many people feel that they would like to look after their children 's party themselves and this book is designed to help them do that . |
| 4 | It is said that the vicar fell out with the church when , some years after his children 's deaths , he was denied permission to erect a monument in the churchyard . |
| 5 | Both camps accept that the fight at the Thomas and Mack Centre , which sounds like a tune-up garage , will answer the ultimate questions about their men 's boxing machinery . |
| 6 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 7 | Parents will be more interested in the school and may ask awkward questions about their children 's learning , particularly when new approaches to teaching and learning are introduced . |
| 8 | At the more routine end of the scale , studies of the relationship between mothers and daughters , from Young and Willmott onwards , document how daughters turn to their mothers when they are anxious about their children 's health , or unsure about some aspect of child rearing ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ) , despite the tendency of professional advisers to devalue ‘ old wives ’ tales ' . |
| 9 | As a result , they have become more concerned not only about their children 's educational well-being , but about their own cultural bearings as well . |
| 10 | suggest the kinds of questions they should be asking about their children 's education ; |
| 11 | urge them to seek regular discussions about their children 's progress ; |
| 12 | I spent the day with Faith Reed and her family — husband Chris and children Lydia , aged 3½ , Sophie , aged two , and Jake , aged nine months — and answered some of the questions today 's parents are asking about their children 's food . |
| 13 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 14 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 15 | Queen Mary had mixed feelings about her countrymen 's humiliations . |
| 16 | The house was used by Cynthia Harnet as the location for her children 's historic novel , ‘ Stars of Fortune ’ . |
| 17 | Servants were essential to run a large house and family , to free the middle-class mother for her prime role of managing her house , not labouring in it , and caring for her children 's development . |
| 18 | For Shirley , who has battle with asthma on a daily basis , the genetic research has no direct bearings yet , but for her children 's children , it could make better treatment , perhaps even a cure , a reality . |
| 19 | She thinks they got her rabbit and was worried for her children 's safety . |
| 20 | This view left room for considerable differences of opinion as to the means by which the labouring poor should be encouraged to work — by coercion or persuasion ; as to the degree to which those who worked could provide for all their needs , such as their children 's education , housing , sickness , old age , widowhood , or required support from the state in some or all of these circumstances ; and as to the degree of culpability of those who did not provide for themselves . |
| 21 | It is damaging to a mother to go on living through her children 's lives . |
| 22 | Clare , Bryony and the others had squatted the old council house and campaigned for support for battered women through their Women 's Paper . |
| 23 | Peter Woodgate won the third division singles by beating Robin Swan , while Simon Woods and Chris Jacob warmed up for their men 's singles meeting by reaching the final of the hard bat singles , Woods emerging the victor . |
| 24 | They have so many hopes and dreams for their children 's future . |
| 25 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 26 | Before disappearing to make records , attend rehearsals , lobby ministers — or , just as important , to scrub and peel the vegetables , maybe open a can of organic baked beans , for their children 's supper . |
| 27 | These developments are most likely to affect urban dwellers and those displaced people and migrants in the urban areas who can not afford even small charges for their children 's education . |
| 28 | It certainly seems to be the case that many of those who opt to pay for their children 's education are attracted by the narrow social intake of most private schools . |
| 29 | Moreover , all recent evidence suggests a high level of interest among both Afro-Caribbean and Asian parents in their children 's schooling and records high aspirations for their children 's performance ( Tomlinson , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | The Act aimed to reinforce rather than to diminish parental responsibility by requiring the presence of parents in court and by increasing the courts ' powers to require parents to pay fines for their children 's offences . |