Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 2 | But our rate was fixed , the girls 's rate We worked for a fixed rate . |
| 3 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 4 | In reporting on the children 's work he noted this : If any society wanted to perpetuate notions of female fickleness and the importance of accepting the proprietorial bias of moral authority , then here is a tale for the purpose . |
| 5 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 6 | I did not start on my own — a young neighbour was selling children 's garments she bought from a warehouse . |
| 7 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 8 | Turning to the field of children 's creativity we find that the area of agreement is far larger than that about literature . |
| 9 | Now that we are facing demands to keep the most detailed records of children 's progress it makes sense to involve children in some of this work . |
| 10 | like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them |
| 11 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 12 | Cockle Button , Cockle Ben , a children 's book he wrote in the 1930s , has remarkably good illustrations . |
| 13 | The world is in front of Stephen and behind him , as in some terrible children 's game he is caught in the middle of a circle , in a kind of nowhere . |
| 14 | When development is used in the literature on children 's language it usually implies acknowledgement of processes over and above learning ( for example , Piaget 1970 ) and an underlying continuity with respect to earlier-occurring relatively simple abilities and later , more complex abilities . |
| 15 | It 's the children 's ideas we should be interested in , not our own . |
| 16 | ‘ George finished his treatment three months ago and is doing well , ’ said Gary at the launch of his BBC children 's show We Are The Champions . |
| 17 | Whatever is near the school the children can study , and because it is near the school and the children 's homes it is important . |
| 18 | So for children 's fables you might have : |
| 19 | About the Children 's Farm you will see peacocks . |
| 20 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 21 | Local league officials have stepped in after one of the men 's teams they beat protested : ‘ We were indecently assaulted . ’ |
| 22 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
| 23 | Should it be unconcerned with the practical affairs of men and take no action to solve men 's problems it does not deserve to be called religion . |
| 24 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 25 | For supporters of women 's ordination it 's the culmination of years of campaigning . |
| 26 | If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’ |
| 27 | In the women 's race it was again a junior — 16-year-old Sinead Jennings from Letterkenny — who proved too strong for the senior opposition . |
| 28 | Women 's Weeklies You see women have been asked this as well . |
| 29 | It was an almost perfect system , for it implied that if Israel wished to dismantle the women 's committees it would have to imprison the entire membership . |
| 30 | because they were women 's work they were held in a |