Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 2 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 3 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 4 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 5 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 6 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 7 | Doi ruthlessly exploited the difficulties which the 1989 Recruit scandal caused for the LDP and as the personification of the nascent Japanese women 's movement she was successful in attracting female voters who had become disillusioned with the political process and estranged from the ruling party . |
| 8 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 9 | The world is in front of Stephen and behind him , as in some terrible children 's game he is caught in the middle of a circle , in a kind of nowhere . |
| 10 | In all probability , however , in the modern solicitors ' partnership it will have been agreed to leave goodwill out of account ( see below ) . |
| 11 | You know they were really , but you see , in the , in , in the to modern womens ' favour you see , these women had n't got anything like we have today . |
| 12 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 13 | I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited . |
| 14 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |