Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friends ' constituents should be aware of the exact commitment made by those who are to manage the trust once it is established on 1 |
| 2 | I had very short hair , always wore jeans , sneakers and an anorak ( being perpetually cold ) , and strangers would often mistake me for a boy — my younger sisters ' younger brother . |
| 3 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 4 | Further to your letter of 18.3.93 , I enclose some correspondence from my previous addresses ' |
| 5 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 6 | A legacy which earmarks , not a particular thing , but a particular fund or collection out of which it is to come ( e.g. ‘ one of my three violins ' ) is called demonstrative . |
| 7 | On 24 June she wrote her final thank you to the architect , asking him to accept a signed photograph of herself ‘ in remembrance of the trouble you have taken concerning my beautiful Dolls ' House ’ . |
| 8 | My fifteen miles ' walk had whetted my appetite , and therefore I looked with no angry gaze on Ranza Inn , and , despite the large company of tourists airing themselves outside , I made inquiries for breakfast , and was told it would not be ready for an hour ( it was now nine o'clock ) . |
| 9 | I remember quite a number of the items from my first Boys ' School Concert , one was the carol , ‘ Away in a Manger ’ , sung by Henry Musselwhite . |
| 10 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 11 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 12 | I am aware that the Institute is making efforts to bring about change , but I can not but help feel that my and my fellow graduates ' achievement is somewhat devalued by the continued willingness of the Institute to adopt almost as many new members as it can . |
| 13 | Fortunately my fellow walkers ' feet came out in sympathy . |
| 14 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 15 | In my paternal grandparents ' house , things were ordered differently . |
| 16 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 17 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 18 | One nanny was sacked on the spot when Diana 's mother discovered that her employee was lacing her elder daughters ' food with laxatives as a punishment . |
| 19 | RANGERS will play their European Champions ' Cup tie with CSKA Moscow at Santander in northern Spain on December 9 . |
| 20 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 21 | Western PTTs are setting up in Eastern Europe , often initially to support their multinational clients ' operations there . |
| 22 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 23 | Inspired by their octogenarian leaders ' nostalgia , fashion designers are promising a return to the austere clothing of the 1950s , now hailed as the high-water mark of the revolutionary tradition of ‘ bitter struggle and hard living ’ . |
| 24 | Through an explosive expansion , especially in southern Spain , of its rural labourers ' section , the FNTT ( National Landworkers Federation ) , the UGT was suddenly transformed from an organization consisting primarily of skilled urban workers into one decisively influenced by the worst-off members of the agricultural labour force . |
| 25 | Far from experiencing simple gratitude , such children will most likely feel terribly torn and anxious when faced with their foster parents ' offer of affection . |
| 26 | At a time when the company was obliged to draw on its total shareholders ' equity to pay its ( reduced ) dividend , the installation of a new mainframe computer system linked to New York ( and horribly slow to use according to London experts ) accounted for a sizeable percentage of last year 's $7 million auction operating costs . |
| 27 | It was a great relief when she arrived at Lomond View to discover that the only person there was Inge , looking rosy-cheeked and happy after her few days ' holiday . |
| 28 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 29 | Bawden lived in that house for 30 years , and no one who went there could forget its atmosphere , partly created by its English artists ' eccentricity of decor . |
| 30 | On Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18 the Railway will stage another of its popular Enthusiasts ' Weekends . |