Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Under the heading ‘ Money-Lenders ’ Baits ' he showed his readers how the cormorants attempted to lure them into their net — advertisements from loan merchants hiding behind grand names like The Clerical and Medical Bank , in all parts of Britain , none of whom saw fit to mention the rates of interest they would charge , and some specifying Without Sureties . |
2 | " These anti-partisan units are without exception completely compromised by open collaboration with the Germans ' he wrote , but he recommended that in view of the complexity of the situation they should not be " handed over to the Yugoslav army " but " should be disarmed and placed in refugee camps ! |
3 | Although their cars were not as good as the Germans ' he drove brilliantly and beat the Mercedes and Auto Unions at the Nurburgring in 1935 to win the German Grand Prix . |
4 | By –passengers ' she meant those who travelled steerage . |
5 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
6 | But , in terms of the the actual vision screening itself erm , we 've iden , those people who 've been identified as V D U , V D U users ' we 've had about five hundred and fifty replies to that , from the V D U , V D U , users ' . |
7 | So , of the er , er yeah , of the people who were identified as being users ' , V D U users ' we 've had about eight percent of the replies have actually been returned , so we are chasing some . |
8 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
9 | She goes " get me a piece of waata " like that — but she jus ' makes me laugh … an' she speaks so fas ' she comes from Barbados she 's Barbadian , my dad 's Trinidadian . |