Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she passed the Haynes ' cottage , it seemed something was amiss there , too . |
| 2 | At the beginning of August , a new political dimension entered the Ks ' story . |
| 3 | I was more concerned with persuading Agnes to go for a walk in the tree-lined garden , and foolishly dismissed the Ralembergs ' unease . |
| 4 | His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes ' progress with mounting apprehension . |
| 5 | And though , as Lachlan had planned , they had expected the attack in the morning , they were quite happy when their lookouts reported the Macleans ' approach in the early evening . |
| 6 | The sun was still bright as we approached the Quigleys ' house but it did n't seem to have reached their road , which was the same as it ever was : dank and green and desperately quiet . |
| 7 | Theodora had studied the membership list of the Society of St Sylvester and used the Julians ' phone and the Archdeacon 's knowledge thereafter . |
| 8 | He found the Lorrimores ' car about a mile and a half out of Cartier . |
| 9 | They found the Ballards ' car . |
| 10 | During that same year Commissioner McKenzie , or " Fighting Mac " , visited the Burrows ' home . |
| 11 | When they visited the Pipers ' home they recognized the source of John 's description in every detail . |
| 12 | The government overruled the Lords ' amendment , but made one small concession : if less than 50 per cent of the eligible voters recorded their vote then the election was to be declared null and void . |
| 13 | By eleven o'clock they had reached the cluster of buildings that formed Lightwater , and identified the Liveseys ' house . |
| 14 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |
| 15 | The communiqué also condemned Iran 's actions over the disputed island of Abu Musa and reaffirmed the Emirates ' right to the two Tunb islands [ see this page ] . |
| 16 | He was trained in Norwich by an unknown master and in June 1629 moved to London , where he joined the Blacksmiths ' Company in 1631 . |
| 17 | Karelius had nothing else to go on , besides which he owed the Hapsburgs ' man something for saving his life . |
| 18 | In July of that year he followed the Toolmakers ' Society into the merger which created the Amalgamated Engineering Union and in the same month became a founder-member of the Communist party of Great Britain , in which the BSP was absorbed . |
| 19 | This allegation threatened the Erembalds ' whole social and political position ; so , when it appeared that Charles the Good was sympathetic towards it , they murdered him . |
| 20 | She heard the Josephs ' astonishment and their feet close after her . |
| 21 | ‘ When I heard The Sugarcubes ' cut , I realised this vague concept could really work . |
| 22 | ‘ When I heard The Sugarcubes ' cut , I realised this vague concept could really work . |
| 23 | Presumably few people said ‘ No ’ to him , Well , Kelly reflected as she dialled the Templemans ' number angrily , there was a first time for everything . |
| 24 | She rang the Templemans ' number . |
| 25 | To replace Rossen , Sir Urian Legh of Adlington recommended Reginald Pott , probably a relative of Walter and probably ( with Walter ) a member of the Pott family of Pott Shrigley , whose lands adjoined the Leghs ' . |
| 26 | On 22 June , a Saturday , about ten of us manhandled the Wilsons ' caravan on to the Lecky Road , the main artery through the Bogside , and parked it broadside in the middle of the road , stopping all the traffic . |
| 27 | She volunteered the information that her eldest daughter was ‘ that good with little ones ’ , also that her eldest son , Bert , then fifteen and dead set on becoming a fisherman , might nevertheless be able to lend a hand now and then on ‘ the farm ’ , as she called the Tremaynes ' few acres . |
| 28 | Annie McCafferty , however , with her training in caring for children , viewed the Bradleys ' large and vociferous helper as an ignorant , interfering busybody . |
| 29 | He saw the Loblaws ' link as a chance to use ‘ consumer power ’ to make quick progress on environmental issues . |
| 30 | A report in this peculiar state of loggerheads in the high powered but ill-fated Hit magazine hardly eased The Smiths ' credibility problem . |