Example sentences of "[pron] parents ' [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doing a lot of hitch-hiking , as I did from my parents ' house in Wales to London , I met many different people . |
| 2 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 3 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |
| 4 | I used to get frightened at my parents ' house in Wales when the boys from the village asked me to play with them . |
| 5 | Asked where I lived , I replied that I was staying in my parents ' flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 6 | Although she occasionally looked waif-like , there was a most unchildlike determination to her mouth and a look about her jawline that suggested that she would not be easily deflected from anything she had set her mind to , but otherwise her parents ' pride in the perfection of their product was largely justified . |
| 7 | She stayed a week and then joined Janet Aldis for an indefinite visit at her parents ' home in Walsall , where Mr Aldis was a housemaster at Queen Mary 's School . |
| 8 | For three months Mrs Reich nursed Holly back to health at her parents ' home in Dagenham , Essex . |
| 9 | She and her mystery man were spotted outside her parents ' home in Fulham , west London . |
| 10 | There were splendid parties at her parents ' home in The Bishop 's Avenue — Hampstead 's ‘ Millionaires ’ Row ’ . |
| 11 | McSweeney , 22 , turned up with Farrah at her parents ' home in Cratloe , near Limerick , on Friday after snatching the baby from London . |
| 12 | Upstairs the flat was empty ; Anne evidently had n't returned from her monthly visit to her parents ' home in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | Pringle held former girlfriend Leanne Rees , 21 , hostage for 47 hours at her parents ' home in Lyonette Road . |
| 14 | Bruce and Tina were best man and bridesmaid at Jim 's wedding to Jean Hay at her parents ' place in Gore . |
| 15 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 16 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 17 | Remember that wives or children travelling alone must have their own passport , and that newly arrived infants must be included in their parents ' passport in advance of their departure date . |
| 18 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 19 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 20 | He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust . |
| 21 | He died unmarried 29 September 1945 at his parents ' home in Llanybyther , Cardiganshire . |
| 22 | But his parents ' place in Hemlock Road was their base for a long time . |
| 23 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 24 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 25 | Most evenings , before setting off for work , he would call in at his parents ' house in Old Church Street . |
| 26 | Victim James Monday found a loaded .38 calibre handgun in his parents ' bedroom in Stockton , California . |
| 27 | You returned to Vienna via Trieste and your parents ' home in Salzburg ; and then the real dramas began . |