Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 2 | When you initially approach an Alexander teacher , make sure that he or she has undergone a teachers ' training course that is recommended by The Society of Alexander Teachers ( STAT ) . |
| 3 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
| 4 | Where the purchaser has commissioned an accountants ' report , it is normal practice to request that the vendor warrants the accuracy of the report . |
| 5 | THE Official Receiver of UK Land 's £60 million Northampton Business Park has called a creditors ' meeting . |
| 6 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 7 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
| 8 | The next step is in the hands of the hotel 's owners , a construction firm from Halesowen , which wants to build an old-peoples ' home on the site . |
| 9 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 10 | Trevino admitted last year that he could not wait to become a Seniors ' Tour player and , as he predicted , the lack of similar calibre players has allowed him to dominate , winning almost $300,000 more than Mike Hill , second on the money list . |
| 11 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc has launched a developers ' program for independent software vendors who will use its Novell NetWare connectivity product , SCO IPX/SPX : an early release , supporting Streams , is out now — a commercial release goes out in the third quarter . |
| 12 | For March we have decided to have a members ' evening . |
| 13 | In cold weather male golfers may prefer to use a ladies ' ball because it will have similar feel to that of a 90 compression ball in normal temperatures . |
| 14 | Sondra Locke never would have made a Forces ' pin-up but that did n't deter Clint Eastwood from turning her into a star with lotsa spunk — and they were off-screen lovers — although he could have had his pick of ‘ beautiful broads ’ . |
| 15 | For the paying customers — you and me — I 'd have thought an auditors ' report claiming ‘ mismanagement and excessive expenditure ’ was a pretty good start . |
| 16 | " We started falling out over it , so we decided to form a tenants ' movement , " one of the tenants told me . |
| 17 | Tax advisers , for whom Labour 's belt-tightening would have meant an accountants ' bonanza . |
| 18 | The 18th Century Brew House has been converted to form a Visitors ' Centre . |
| 19 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 20 | If Mr Bulger , the proprietor of the Seagull Hotel , Loathesome-on-Sea , wishes to open a non-residents ' bar at the hotel to attract passing trade , whereas at present the hotel bar is open to residents only , does Mr Bulger require planning permission ? |
| 21 | We did have a boys ' night out with Tim Cooper of the Evening Standard . |
| 22 | American style restaurants usually cater well for children so The Manhattan in Bradbury Place looked an ideal spot and they did have a kiddies ' menu . |
| 23 | IT 'S disgraceful that jailed gangsters Reg and Ronnie Kray have been allowed to commission a kids ' computer game based on their Sixties reign of terror . |
| 24 | Afterwards he had completed his training as a fighter pilot , performing so well that he was assigned to take an instructors ' course with the Navy at San Diego . |
| 25 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 26 | Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools . |
| 27 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 28 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
| 29 | Shemaka had to survive a stewards ' inquiry before the result was confirmed . |
| 30 | The more militant among them have formed a bakers ' commando and have blown up several stores belonging to their ‘ industrial ’ enemies . |