Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 2 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 3 | ‘ In about six months ' time I 'm going to be a father . ’ |
| 4 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 5 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
| 6 | Er Kids ' County I 'll give you some more clues these might help , It 's got tunnels it 's metal round the edge it 's green . |
| 7 | Mr Chairman I would like to move the resolution in standing in the Conservatives ' name I would say that I would hope that erm the other side would er join with us in voting that through and certainly have no problem with the relevant resolution that Mr put forward . |
| 8 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
| 9 | To the crews ' embarrassment I stumped up on the bridge wearing the eye patch and the parrot on my shoulder with the added embellishment of an iron hook up the loose sleeve of my coat , to take Venturous alongside in full view of a crowd of holidaymakers lining the pier who , although somewhat mystified , obviously enjoyed the show . |
| 10 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 11 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 12 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 13 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 14 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 15 | To achieve this in four years ' time I would be doing |
| 16 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 17 | In two years ' time I would be doing |
| 18 | One of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs ' jersey I would think . |
| 19 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 20 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 21 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 22 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 23 | As the transfer was not at arms ' length I had to obtain an estimate of the market value of the house and forward this to the Inland Revenue Stamps Office . |
| 24 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 25 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 26 | In one creative planting episode on Gardeners ' World I want to savour a taste of Victoriana with some formal bedding . |