Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
| 2 | Rovers ' victory gave them the Barclays Performance of the Week vote from Graham Taylor 's panel . |
| 3 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 4 | They have been close ever since their parents ' divorce drew them together . |
| 5 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 6 | The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer . |
| 7 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 8 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 9 | Robson played 44 of Coventry 's 50 games and none of his rare absences was connected with the pelvic injury which at one stage of his Hammers ' career restricted him to 13 games in three years . |
| 10 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 11 | She took a BSc honours degree in Sociology at London University , worked as a community counsellor for one-parent families in Camden and was on the literature panel of the Arts Council until their decision to return to the Government some money designated for writers ' bursaries led her to resign in disgust . |
| 12 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 13 | Adjustment to their customers ' needs compelled them to establish an international presence that had hitherto been unnecessary . |
| 14 | She sighed with relief , but the look in the SS officers ' eyes warned her that she had something worse in mind . |
| 15 | In granting the county court order , Judge Geoffrey Vos said the families ' affidavits showed they feared for their children . |
| 16 | Pigs ' trotters made him sick . |
| 17 | But a late Rangers ' free-kick hit him on his nearly-bald spot and bounced kindly for Dennis Bailey to rob United of a point . |
| 18 | There the young ladies ' brother found me , when he returned home a few minutes later , and he insisted , much against the housekeeper 's wishes , on bringing me into the house . |
| 19 | RELATIONS between the British Medical Association and Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , reached a fresh low last night , as doctors ' leaders accused him of appearing to renege on promises that patients ' drugs would not be cash-limited under the Government 's National Health Service plans . |
| 20 | The Select Committee on Members ' Interests found he was in ‘ clear breach of the terms and the spirit ’ of the rules on declaration of interests for failing to tell other committee members of his links with a company making flight simulators . |
| 21 | The International Squash Players ' Association said it will take action this week on the 20-year-old Pakistani , and the likelihood is a fine and a zero point score for the World Open . |
| 22 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |
| 23 | In a statement , the boys ' father said he told them : ‘ Do not let women come between you . |