Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those in the second section asked about teachers ' general perceptions of school self-evaluation and were virtually identical to those asked earlier in Solihull ( Turner and Clift , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 3 | Since ITV had the TV monopoly of advertising and ‘ editorializing ’ was not allowed , few anxieties surfaced about advertisers ' influence on programmes . |
| 4 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
| 5 | Even in cases where teachers clearly disagreed with advisers ' recommendations , they had at least been forced to reconsider their existing practices . |
| 6 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 7 | Often the furore stemmed from audiences ' unease at being plugged into a musical idiom shorn of familiar signposts . |
| 8 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 9 | Hankin appealed for fans ' patience and encouragement at a critical stage of the season . |
| 10 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 11 | The increasing demand for medical care on the part of the middle classes combined with a growing perception of medical attention as a status symbol by those below , also added to doctors ' social power . |
| 12 | The fault came to Rangers ' attention when they were forced to postpone a Premier Division game with Dundee United at Ibrox in December because of a fractured drainage pipe . |
| 13 | Money-lenders came to borrowers ' houses , not vice versa . |
| 14 | Later Friedman ( 1975 ) shifted position somewhat in that he allowed for employers ' mistakes concerning the behaviour of the real wage rate : the ex post real wage need never deviate from its market clearing value for fluctuations in the level of employment around its natural value to occur . |
| 15 | Marvellous similes flowed from journalists ' pens . |
| 16 | The promoters of the Alexandra Palace show , Kennedy Street Enterprises , replied to fans ' accusations this week , claiming that they had done everything possible to provide tickets for genuine applicants . |
| 17 | In the early 1920s she campaigned for widows ' pensions . |
| 18 | She campaigned for prisoners ' rights as secretary of the Women 's Prisoners ' Defence League from 1922 ; edited Prison Bars in 1937–8 ; and was the Republican party of Ireland candidate in the local government elections of 1936 . |
| 19 | The philanthropic General Oglethorpe intended it initially as a place where people released from debtors ' prison could make a fresh start in life . |
| 20 | When she returned to Swans ' Meadow , she found Ursula had embarked on a cold-blooded drinking bout and was reluctant to accompany her into the garden , the one venue where Charlotte felt she could safely disclose what had happened . |
| 21 | But this was not the only series that fed on viewers ' appetite for nostalgic programming . |
| 22 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 23 | ( One theory is that it arose from scribes ' attempts to make the word more legible . |
| 24 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 25 | His pictures were stubbornly not nice : he called for carpenters ' pencils of rough graphite rather than the refined Fabers , crayons of a denser black , and later squeezed his colour messily and thickly from the tube direct when he was in the mood . |
| 26 | On a slab and piled into a stone sink were torsos of human beings , one or two of them opened and filleted like pigs ' carcasses . |
| 27 | The bulbs ' internal circuitry alters the mains current so that the actual load placed on the grid is larger than that recorded on consumers ' electricity meters . |
| 28 | He shows commendable " guile " not far from deplorable " trickery " , the force of lordly authority belied by followers ' barely-controlled violence . |
| 29 | He thought about models ' bottoms , feeling Tessa 's bulking large against the small of his back . |
| 30 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |