Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] these [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long legged on him even allowing for these ponies ' generous girths . |
| 2 | Further investigations will be made into these childrens ' inability to count the number of sounds in a word by tapping them out and their failure to perform rhyme judgements : both tasks which have been thought , hitherto , to be essential to adequate sound-letter mapping . |
| 3 | Natural Gas Vehicles were also covered in some detail but as our public relations efforts seem to be hampered by these vehicles ' technical problems it 's difficult to be more positive than we have been . |
| 4 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Worst of all there was very little interlocking between separate communes , a circumstance which was reflected in these peasants ' lack of political cohesiveness in the Dumas . |
| 6 | The tenacity , ingenuity and resourcefulness of the women involved in these Groups ' activities was remarkable for the sheer depth of social and material capacities which it uncovered . |
| 7 | A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network . |
| 8 | This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time . |