Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 2 | Because of the immediate nature of such patients ' problems it is important that whatever form of help is offered should be available without too much delay , and for this reason health-centre-based therapists may be of particular value , as has been shown in the case of psychologists ( Robson et al. 1984 ) and social workers ( Shepherd et al. 1979 ) . |
| 3 | As the sells his beers to the free trade and to national brewers ' pubs he has noticed both the swingeing price increases imposed by the brewing giants and the reaction among their tenants . |
| 4 | Delia Cope believes by listening to Black women 's poems she is doing us a favour . |
| 5 | tragically yes , or all boys ' schools you know here are young men who have had thousands of pounds spent on their education , and when they arrive in an environment like Oxford they somehow seem to be less capable than other young men of behaving with decency towards the students they are being educated with . |
| 6 | ‘ Optioning ’ , they call it ; nicking best-selling authors ' plot-lines we call it , but increasingly novels have formed the bedrock of Hollywood 's biggest grossing films . |
| 7 | If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’ |
| 8 | Encouraged by their interpretations of each others ' dreams they set off against Humbaba to cut down his cedar forests . |
| 9 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 10 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 11 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 12 | In both characters ' lives it was mainly men who had oppressed them , for Phyllisia it was her father who preferred her sister , Ruby . |