Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , under men like Halsbury , they reacted to the legislation of the later nineteenth century with all the inflexibility of those who are determined that what was good enough for their fathers ' social and economic structures was good enough for them . |
| 2 | The campesinos kept enough for their families ' needs over the year and handed the rest of the harvest in to the Supplies Team . |
| 3 | He had told her enough about his parents ' passionate devotion to each other for Julia to feel desperately sorry for her . |
| 4 | She is a stiff bundle of rags , arching this way and that , legs clamped together against his knees ' efforts to prise them apart , arms straining him back up off her body . |
| 5 | A fascinating satirical theme is never properly pushed to its limits and all concerned sadly bottle out , with plot and action drooping along with its protagonists ' derrieres . |
| 6 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
| 7 | ‘ Saxtet ’ present a unique musical entertainment incorporating arrangements of classical music and jazz , which have evolved naturally from its members ' wide-ranging influences and tastes . |
| 8 | Mr Cedric Multhrop subsided into one of the comfortable armchairs in his lounge , then leapt up guiltily as though a mere hotel owner had no place to be sitting down in his guests ' domain . |
| 9 | But Pete did stay around , and they live together in her parents ' house with their nine-month-old baby . |
| 10 | It was certainly hard to see much in her parents ' relationship ; it seemed to Caro now a sad empty thing . |
| 11 | There , clergy wives , listening eagerly to their husbands ' superiors , would find their feet gripped by apparently supernatural growths from the infernal regions . |
| 12 | And every delay is henceforth to our opponents ' advantage . |
| 13 | Sometimes they will walk fast , even running from place to place , and then they will skip or hop , and the next moment they will be walking quite slowly ( much to their mothers ' annoyance ) . |
| 14 | Each woos the other 's sweetheart passionately , and after initial indignant reluctance , the girls begin to give way , much to their sweethearts ' disgust . |
| 15 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 16 | Here the marchers can drill up and down to their hearts ' content . |
| 17 | Havelock Wilson 's later reputation in the trade union movement as a " bosses " man " , an imperialist , an anti-democrat riding roughshod over his members ' wishes and a betrayer of the miners ' cause during the 1926 General Strike diverges strangely from his earlier image as a militant , a rabble-rouser , a fearless advocate of the seafarer , " stumping the country agitating , organising and inciting " , and as an advocate , even an originator , of the " new unionism " which shook the trade union establishment to its foundations in the late 1880s and early 1890s . |
| 18 | Their standards and targets are high and apply overall , not only to their subordinates ' performance , but also to other departments and their own personal performance . |
| 19 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 20 | She sighed as she turned in at her parents ' tasteful wrought-iron gate . |
| 21 | Most evenings , before setting off for work , he would call in at his parents ' house in Old Church Street . |
| 22 | SunSoft is planning on releasing details of the programme that it 's putting together at its developers ' conference later this month . |
| 23 | When two or three such persons were gathered together at our servants ' hall — I mean of the calibre of , say , Mr Graham , with whom now , sadly , I seem to have lost touch — we would have some of the most stimulating and intelligent debates on every aspect of our vocation . |
| 24 | Coventry is a new town , with the proverbial shopping precinct and housing estates on the periphery which are rescued from an atmosphere of impermanence only by their inhabitants ' gardens . |
| 25 | But she would often tell friends how keenly she felt a responsibility not just for her employees ' jobs , but for their health , their mortgages , their children 's educations and the entire survival of the rural community in Carno . |
| 26 | Not only does the 24-hour delivery time achieved week in week out put most publishers to shame , but if it were not for their buyers ' notes and regular representative visits , we as a small bookshop all too often ignored by publishers — The Bookseller apart , whose efforts are also appreciated — would not be made aware of new titles and promotions . |
| 27 | As she drove away from her parents ' house , she was still reluctant to return to Rose Cottage ; so , delaying the moment of arrival for as long as possible , she decided to return home via Brighton , and to spend the day there , window shopping . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 30 | There , I learned , the churchyard was closed to burials , although her ashes might be interred — not in her parents ' grave as I had asked — but in the church 's garden of remembrance . |