Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun prp] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible that her sister had taken on a new maid for the Fanshawes ' flat and not said anything about it ? |
| 2 | Between them they claimed to act for the wrongly deposed King John Balliol ( another reason for the Bruces ' disfavour ) and between them , in the absence of Edward on one of his French campaigns , systematically mopped up English defences across central and south-east Scotland . |
| 3 | The ham for the Sarns ' table in Precious Bane presumably came from pigs kept in humane conditions , unlike the poor animals that inspired Mike Baxter to develop the new-style pig pens described in Quentin Seddon 's feature on page 58 . |
| 4 | Specify a competing behaviour for the Jones ' priority PB . |
| 5 | Human rights organisations and lawyers ' associations worldwide have been involved in the campaign for the Chirwas ' release . |
| 6 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 7 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 8 | For the Webbs ' prescription for Socialism was ownership and control by the State or municipality of the means of production or provision , the control to be exercised in the general interest . |
| 9 | As for the Webbs ' insistence on the separate and restricted role for trade unionism , the practical effect was , once again , to abandon industrial democracy , to accept that the rights of working people at work remained the rights inhering in the property they owned : their labour , and nothing more . |
| 10 | In 1840 he won a competition for the Dyers ' Company almshouses in Islington . |
| 11 | Next in the score is a page left blank , apart from clefs for four-part strings , with the same key- and time signatures as for the Haymakers ' scene , and the heading ‘ Dance for a Clown ’ . |
| 12 | But it must be said that both Liverpool and Everton have cause to be grateful for the Moores ' family millions . |
| 13 | He built and endowed almshouses in Barnet for the Leathersellers ' Company when he was its master in 1836–7 . |
| 14 | For the Dunnetts ' dog Theo , there is only one cloud on an otherwise blemish-free horizon — no cats to chase ! |
| 15 | Jonathan Crowther is trying to sort out the OALDCE launch video for the AMs ' visit in July . |
| 16 | ( Giscard d'Estaing had already warned the Palace about the Romanians ' insatiable pilfering during their recent stay in France , but Palace officials remain discreet about any misdemeanours during the Ceauşescus ' visit . ) |
| 17 | Baroness Strange said during the Lords ' debate in February : |
| 18 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 19 | Also king 's business were several works fostering uniformity in religion such as The Bishops ' Book , 1537 ( STC 5163 ) and The King 's Book , 1543 ( STC 5168 ) , of which multiple editions had to be printed . |
| 20 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 21 | As Lawler shone the torch outside Maggie listened to the protesting groan of timbers and prayed the hotel was n't going to suddenly collapse as the McPhersons ' house had done . |
| 22 | In other countries , notably West Germany whose history of having industry unions such as the Metalworkers ' Union has meant less demarcation between crafts , a series of possibilities about the organisation of maintenance have been discussed . |
| 23 | The result earned Coventry the vote from Graham Taylor 's panel as the Barclays ' Performance of the Week . |
| 24 | In principle , there is the same incompatibility between the Webbs ' prospectus of general public ownership and Consumer Co-operation as an aspect of private ownership ; and since the Webbs ' approval of consumer co-operatives makes them an exception , we need to know why . |
| 25 | He liked to divide his spare time between the Sargents ' house and the boat , equally indifferent to the ordered comfort of the one and the shabby squalor of the other . |
| 26 | During an interview in a television documentary about the Parrys ' struggle to understand why Tim was murdered , his father , Colin , explained why he wanted to meet Mr Adams . |
| 27 | All this means we can forget about The Communards ' cover version of ‘ Never Can Say Goodbye ’ , and we can forget about the wretched Pet Shop Boys , the only successful contemporary pop ironists . |
| 28 | At the time of the revolution there was a great deal of speculation about the Ceauşescus ' wealth which , it was often claimed , had been stashed away in Swiss banks . |
| 29 | Guy Tolson is particularly excited about the Girbauds ' use of a sweatshirt-like fabric for semi-formal trousers . |
| 30 | Any outstanding payment will be collected through the Booksellers ' Clearing House at the end of January . |