Example sentences of "[noun] ' [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scores also illustrated a recurring problem on this sevens tour — the Scots ' physique puts them at great disadvantage in terms of weight of tackle . |
| 2 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 3 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
| 4 | The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits . |
| 5 | One year after its inception , the members of the Precision RISC Organisation supporters ' club say they have successfully built and delivered a new business model for industry consortia , Hewlett-Packard Co reports . |
| 6 | Canopus can easily be found by using Alnitak and Saiph , in Orion , as direction-finders , but I doubt whether this will be necessary , because Canopus ' brilliance makes it stand out at once . |
| 7 | And er you think you 're right with Kids ' County give us a ring soon . |
| 8 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It might seem obvious that all good design has to be ‘ editorially led ’ by a full understanding of the relative importance of different sections of the data , and by a full appreciation of the needs of the readers — but a critical look at some companies ' material makes it woefully apparent that things by no means always work like that . |
| 11 | In a recent catalogue of a large funeral directors ' suppliers firm I counted 309 embalming preparations . |
| 12 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
| 13 | Rovers ' victory gave them the Barclays Performance of the Week vote from Graham Taylor 's panel . |
| 14 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 15 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 16 | They have been close ever since their parents ' divorce drew them together . |
| 17 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 18 | Growing up is hard to do , when the terms of your parents ' will keeps you in a perpetual state of childhood . |
| 19 | Inviting secondary schools to mount a stall in the primary school hall or corridors during parents ' evenings gives them a good opportunity to inform parents of what they have to offer children . |
| 20 | Home burials are particularly important to children , partly because it helps them to understand that the pet has gone forever and also because seeing their parents ' sorrow teaches them that it 's normal and acceptable to grieve . |
| 21 | Above all , experiencing our parents ' death forces us to face the fact of our own mortality . |
| 22 | The supermarkets ' muscle enables them to demand quality yet keep farmers ' prices down , and the gap between what they pay and what they charge has widened . |
| 23 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 24 | They chose Guy Fawkes ' night to do it and the gesture went unnoticed — he found a lesson even in this . |
| 25 | Most at risk is Venice , California , on Los Angeles 's Pacific shore , where the Venice in Peril organisation welcomes visitors ' support to help them to save the many cultural treasures , some of them almost 50 years old . |
| 26 | Our man on the visitors ' end assures us that the chant was ‘ Big fat Ray 's black and white army ’ virtually throughout . |
| 27 | Social workers ' tendency to co-opt her into the professional team will be difficult for her to handle . |
| 28 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 29 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 30 | The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer . |