Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research has focused on students ' learning strategies , and has developed a typology of them . |
| 2 | Most of the recent research in this field has concentrated on school-leavers ' job aspirations . |
| 3 | What has happened to leeds ' scouts ? |
| 4 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 5 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 6 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 7 | The accident put paid to Blues ' thoughts of racing , but also rekindled his interest in the guitar . |
| 8 | An independent inquiry carried out for the DTI by Sir Godfrey le Quesne QC in 1989 emphasised the reliance the DTI had placed on Spicers ' opinion in granting BC a licence in 1985 . |
| 9 | Her face was red from the steam and her hair had gone into rats ' tails . |
| 10 | Budd Hopkins delivered what they wanted — and endless stream of stories about abductions , accompanied by sketches of the aliens and bizarre slides of the tiny wounds their probings had left on victims ' bodies . |
| 11 | Only in retrospect , after our detailed research , did it become clear to anyone what had transpired in GPs ' surgeries throughout Wirral in 1982–4 . |
| 12 | These have come from employers ' organisations , individual companies , trade unions and other organisations , and from individual people . |
| 13 | I can tell when they have come from Goldsmiths ' . |
| 14 | It would be premature to describe the youth groups and subcultures associated with many popular music styles in these terms ; but the importance they have assumed in adolescents ' development is suggestive — just as the older class-based behavioural models and moral norms of proletarian communities , though weakened and modified , have not been entirely smashed . |