Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversy has always surrounded the Minoans ' bull-leaping exploits , and there are many who are sceptical that they ever took place . |
| 2 | Favourite at 8–1 was Spartan Missile , bred , owned , trained and ridden by 54-year-old John Thorne : this brilliant hunter-chaser had twice won the Foxhunters ' Chase on the course and was strongly supported to thwart the Champion dream . |
| 3 | MERSEYSIDE MP Eddie O'Hara has won a Commons ' victory to change the wording of benefit claim forms for the terminally ill . |
| 4 | He had seen the Greycoats ' boys training and , for the first , serious time in his life , felt himself an alien . |
| 5 | But by appearing to separate the royal family from most of the rest of the aristocracy , the Queen 's advisers have ensured the Windsors ' survival in a mature democratic society . |
| 6 | She remembered how huge she had thought the Longhills ' kitchen on her arrival in Nordale , and reckoned that it would have fitted into a corner of this one . |
| 7 | if you 've got the Chippendales ' tape |
| 8 | From their recent single Weed Bus — a bastard offspring of The Stones ' The Last Time — and from the whole of their nineteen-track debut album ‘ Mexican R'n'B ’ , it 's obvious that The Stairs have mastered The Kinks ' grungy guitar sound , a yowling Jaggeresque vocal and the Beatles ' patented minor/major chord shift . |
| 9 | They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time . |
| 10 | But the army has fallen bitterly into rival factions and the army had replaced the Duvaliers ' secret police as the only coherent force in the country . |
| 11 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |
| 12 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 13 | But the report — for an inquiry into the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings — makes clear that new tests had not proved the Maguires ' guilt . |
| 14 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |
| 15 | She had taken the Shills ' two older children , a boy and a girl aged six and four , for a Christmas treat , along with her two grandchildren , had then gone shopping to enjoy the festive lights of Windsor . |
| 16 | The Cheltenham campaign could n't have tested the Taylors ' stance on racial issues more . |