Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like affection , status relates to our feelings about other peoples ' feelings for us . |
| 2 | A salesman at one licensed dealer used to read his clients ' horoscopes for them . |
| 3 | He does n't do the engineers ' jobs for them , nor tell the personnel professionals how to he more professional . |
| 4 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 5 | Could you tell me where to apply for a full birth certificate with all my parents ' details on it ? |
| 6 | Or , to turn these questions around , what relevance do these intra-collegial debates over the ‘ proper place of general practice ’ have for everyday medical work and the participants ' views of it ? |
| 7 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 8 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 9 | The discussion of national intelligence and the psychologists ' debates over it did not initiate the idea of a system of education specifically designed to foster talent , to prevent waste of intelligence as a national resource . |
| 10 | We also have to recognise that certain rhetorical strategies might be adopted for tactical reasons , especially the ploy of using one 's opponents ' arguments against them in order to discredit their position . |
| 11 | One of the leading practitioner 's texts on company law , Gore-Browne , argues that while the directors are now required to take employee interests into account , they are never permitted to subordinate the shareholders ' interests to them . |
| 12 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 13 | This is because the nature of the mechanical deficiencies changed with time , and so did our predecessors ' perceptions of them . |
| 14 | The illusion soon faded , and an administration of dull Bavarians had to be imported to sort out the Greeks ' affairs for them . |
| 15 | You can forget old wives ' tales about it clearing up ‘ when you get married ’ or ‘ growing out of it ’ . |
| 16 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 17 | The Discussion Paper illustrated ‘ split accounting ’ and ‘ the imputed interest method ’ and sought respondents ' views on them , although it did not propose that these methods be required . |
| 18 | He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment . |
| 19 | Some recent interpretations of Greek history , and of the Greek historians ' versions of it , have suggested that there was , in fact , a gap between such ideals and the actual practice and that we should not take their own statements too literally . |
| 20 | Take one question at a time and go through all the trainees ' answers to it . |
| 21 | The beech trees of Yarm 's Beech Tree Court are to stay , says Stockton Borough Council , despite residents ' calls for them to be given the chop . |
| 22 | Today 's game I thought would be a good opportunity to rub the buggers ' noses in it . |
| 23 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 24 | Yeah , you sometimes get them some of them look as if there 's , I du n no vinta vintage Newcastle Brown you know cobwebs and dust on them int there and spiders ' webs on them . |