Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Stanton 's elder son , William , who was master mason to the Mint , attempted to carry on the sculptors ' yard , but was declared bankrupt in 1735 . |
| 2 | In market terms , the key question is whether knackers will be in a financial position to pass on the renderers ' costs to farmers at a cost the farming community finds acceptable before they are forced out of business . |
| 3 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 4 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 5 | But will the arrival of baby number four signal that the time is right to ‘ hang up the booties ' once and for all ? |
| 6 | He says he found out the calves ' tongues were grey and pink . |
| 7 | This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead . |
| 8 | I wanted to know how the parties ' policies actually affect people 's daily lives . |
| 9 | At this stage it 's difficult to know how the parties ' proposals may differ . |
| 10 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 11 | They have little experience of the style of presentation in higher courts ‘ and it matters ’ and whilst a number of solicitors are extremely good others ‘ let themselves down in court ’ and in doing so let down the solicitors ' branch of the profession as a whole . |
| 12 | Serendipity translates as the Gipsy Kings flamencoing up The Eagles ' ‘ Hotel California ’ , Javetta Steel 's gospel rendition of ‘ I 'd Like To Teach The World To Sing ’ and the classical renegades Kronos Quartet 's remarkably sympathetic ‘ Marquee Moon ’ . |
| 13 | Serendipity translates as the Gipsy Kings flamencoing up The Eagles ' ‘ Hotel California ’ , Javetta Steel 's gospel rendition of ‘ I 'd Like To Teach The World To Sing ’ and the classical renegades Kronos Quartet 's remarkably sympathetic ‘ Marquee Moon ’ . |
| 14 | The illusion soon faded , and an administration of dull Bavarians had to be imported to sort out the Greeks ' affairs for them . |
| 15 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 16 | The Court accepted that the agreement did not formulate precisely the inhabitants ' rights but thought them sufficiently precise for judicial enforcement . |
| 17 | If this happens then the coatings ' ability to act as a barrier between the metal implant and the body can be lost . |
| 18 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 19 | Sheriff Principal Ronald Ireland turned down the parents ' appeal that Thursday morning . |
| 20 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |
| 21 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 22 | Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms . |
| 23 | However , these are only blips in the stream of things , as are the rise of index investing and increased use of futures to rebalance portfolios ( both of which slice back the brokers ' business ) . |
| 24 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 25 | One of my first jobs in the morning , when I was not at school , was to sweep out the customers ' part of the shop . |
| 26 | He is selling out the workers ' rights and , by doing so , the future of any United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 27 | The table shows how the agencies ' ratings of three large Italian banks , Banca Commerciale Italiana ( BCI ) , Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino , have diverged since last year . |
| 28 | Emily stayed quiet , treading water and wondering where the others ' breath for talking came from . |
| 29 | The males are also known to ‘ rape ’ other males , cementing up the victims ' genital openings to render them incapable of copulation . |
| 30 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |