Example sentences of "[pron] parents ' [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 . |
| 2 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 3 | She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her . |
| 4 | Diana no longer felt so different because of her parents ' divorce but because a voice inside her told her that she would be separate from the herd . |
| 5 | She had inherited a substantial sum of money from her parents ' estates and devoted herself to works of charity . |
| 6 | John Murphy 's daughter had separated from John Neal and returned to her parents ' home but Mr Neal continued to call , often drunk and at odd hours . |
| 7 | At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham . |
| 8 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 9 | Her parents ' house but not her parents ' house . |
| 10 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 11 | Maisie had moved out of her parents ' house and come to stay at the Wilsons ' shortly after her mother 's funeral , a multi-denominational affair dominated by the headmaster of the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys ' School ( Day ) . |
| 12 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 13 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 14 | Prior to World War I , a majority of spinsters faced an often lonely and marginal life in their parents ' home or in the households of a male relative . |
| 15 | The ultimate in the clean break philosophy was the shipping of thousands of deprived children to Canada and Australia , ‘ not all of them orphans and not always with their parents ' knowledge or consent ’ . |
| 16 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 17 | People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born . |
| 18 | Two of these 56 children are not included in the analyses ; both died in the early 1970s shortly after having non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed , and we were unable to verify their parents ' names or dates of birth . |
| 19 | Students , who tend to the left , can choose whether to register in their parents ' homes or where they live in term time . |
| 20 | Symbolic and tangible rewards ( praise , encouragement , a hug — the sort of ‘ rewards ’ that psychologists call ‘ positive reinforcers ’ ) regulate behaviour Children are likely to be willing to obey distasteful rules because they wish to have their parents ' approval or avoid their disapproval . |
| 21 | The place was fairly close to his parents ' home and possibly had been chosen for that reason . |
| 22 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 23 | Twenty-three year-old Allen Taylor is ‘ sick and tired ’ of the continuing attacks on his parents ' house and is appealing for help . |
| 24 | It was midnight when he finally eased the Triumph to a stop in front of his parents ' house and swayed gently up the steps . |
| 25 | Theo must have known in any case : he was always his parents ' confidant and advisor , as well as his brother 's . |
| 26 | He shared his parents ' bedroom and the old man and his widowed daughter slept in the other room with a blanket on a line dividing them . |
| 27 | Their meeting will probably be nothing more than a courteous request from your boyfriend for your parents ' blessing and approval and it should get their relationship off to a good start ! |
| 28 | We were warned not to dress in our parents ' clothes and he threatened Frankie with his belt , but nothing more was said about it . |