Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1952 I received a county grant , enabling me to attend a girls ' public school in the Home Counties . |
| 2 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 3 | I found the authors ' expert discussion of the role of the electroweak force in promoting optical activity in biopolymers quite fascinating . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was unkind of me , but I mentioned the Workers ' Education Classes . |
| 5 | For the first time I noticed the brothers ' yarmulkes in the somewhat subdued light of the boardroom , plain black skullcaps blending in with the pale glow of the room . |
| 6 | I 'm Raymond , and I attend the Friends ' Meeting here . |
| 7 | The first time I visit the Ladies ' Pond , I exclaim to Kelly , ‘ It 's like a Fellini film , ’ to which she says in a lazy Scottish brogue , ‘ Perhaps … |
| 8 | Erm first of all may I move the officers ' erm recommendations on the paper if that 's in order and I hope erm to save er to comment on the |
| 9 | I remember a tenants ' association was set up and they demanded that we meet them . |
| 10 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 11 | I was able to persuade my chief ground instructor to let the crews pick themselves , I placed the pilots ' names on a blackboard with four spare slots for the rest of the crew . |
| 12 | But above all , I saw the sabs ' devotion to the cause . |
| 13 | My memory was vaguely stirred when I saw the authors ' name . |
| 14 | I saw the millionaires ' mile in Miami , Florida , where the richest people live marooned on small islands in a bay . |
| 15 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 16 | Erm and I think the tenants ' group came to us and , and asked us if we would set up an advice session for tenants moving out , which could be situated in the flats , and could be run on a regular basis . |
| 17 | Yes , yes , it , it hit , it hit us dreadfully yes , yes and you , you would 've , this er chappie who showed us slides , he showed us erm er you know the soup kitchens that we did erm they did and I think the Guilds ' women were involved with that you know . |
| 18 | I said the kids ' crusade was curdling now , everyone had overdosed , but she would n't listen . |
| 19 | I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm very grateful to the Board for the grant , but I have estimated it will cost us around £ a month for a two bedroomed flat in Bristol , and I have the kids ' uniforms for college and all my books to buy . |
| 21 | ‘ I hope not , ’ Sophie said involuntarily , then flushed as she met the others ' surprised looks . |
| 22 | But what do you think the girls ' names meant ? |
| 23 | ‘ How 's your mother , Nurse Avery ? ’ asked Sister Robinson , as she approached the nurses ' station where Juliet was studying Bobbie Cole 's test results . |
| 24 | Joyce Barr was again in commanding form as she lifted the ladies ' title bearing Margaret Holligan of Economics . |
| 25 | Initially she welcomed the professionals ' involvement because she believed this might result in help and advice in identifying the reasons for Tom 's deteriorating behaviour . |
| 26 | As a mother , she says she sees the parents ' point of view . |
| 27 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 28 | I represent I think , along with my colleagues here , the you know the pensioners ' movement . |
| 29 | But she fears the embers ' flicker and the night closing in over chill ash . |
| 30 | Again she heard the boys ' warm approving voices , voices that left her outside the heat of that dangerous moment . |