Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if he can leave all this behind , and wearing only ordinary casual clothes still keep up his peers ' belief in him , then the Town Boys are likely to accept him . |
| 2 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |
| 3 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 4 | The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble . |
| 5 | Greene found subjects ' performance in her sorting task supported this claim . |
| 6 | In the case of definite pronouns , we have shown that mapping from roles to roles and from roles to names can be influenced by manipulating the experimental task and , presumably subjects ' perception of it . |
| 7 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 8 | With the god 's gesture and the seers ' reaction to it , this emphasises the designer 's Pindaric approach to the story . |
| 9 | This area was selected for study because of the authors ' familiarity with it , the adequate rural-urban contrast and the availability of a suitable image . |
| 10 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 11 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 12 | John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me . |
| 13 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 14 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 15 | The bargaining power of enterprises is enhanced by their strategic role within their own sectors and governments ' dependence on them for implementation of policy . |
| 16 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 17 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 18 | Secretaries and have outlasted most , with 38 years ' service between them . |
| 19 | Nithard does so , however , while the author of a curious single annal for 830 – 1 , tacked onto the Prior Metz Annals ( the last entry otherwise was for 805 ) makes Judith the central figure in the story , and explains the 830 rebellion in terms of her stepsons ' hostility to her and her " very goodlooking son Charles " who " they feared might succeed as heir in his father 's realm " . |
| 20 | The bank , which also held its annual meeting yesterday , rejected a shareholders ' demand for it to sell its US-based fund management business , National Securities & Research . |
| 21 | They were treated like children , not young adults and the 11 p.m. rule imposed on the Beida students without consultation was symptomatic of the authorities ' attitude towards them . |
| 22 | And I know this presents the county council with some problems I do n't know currently what the the local authorities ' view on it is . |
| 23 | Similarly , professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers ' dependence upon them . |
| 24 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |
| 25 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |
| 26 | Jamie Reid 's graphic designs — cut-ups , like a kidnapper 's ransom notes — mocked the ethos of the record industry , and the Sex Pistols ' relationship with it , with a wickedly funny disrespect for politesse or law . |
| 27 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |
| 28 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 29 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 30 | She thought : I am a few walls ' , stairways ' , rooms ' distance from him . |