Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm Raymond , and I attend the Friends ' Meeting here . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I do n't think anybody knows exactly how they 'd react to that you know sort of And I think the women 's support group has created the frame work that 's enabled us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | She says : ‘ I check the women 's blood pressure on the hour for five hours . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I represent I think , along with my colleagues here , the you know the pensioners ' movement . |
| 11 | ‘ Sorry , but the security johnny insists that you sign the visitors ' book . |
| 12 | Yeah , Mao said we support the peasants ' demand for equal distribution of land in order to help the masses of peasants speedily to abolish the system of land ownership , but we do not advocate absolute egalitarianism , whoever advocates absolute egalitarianism is wrong , such thinking is reactionary , backward and retrogressive in nature |
| 13 | We watch the foxgloves ' flapping fingerstalls , |
| 14 | Then deep into the countryside : midnight in a blacksmith 's cottage , we hear the strangers ' urgent knock , the peremptory demands to shoe four horses . |
| 15 | When we produce the seven-year-olds ' test results local authority by local authority , good results will be shown for some authorities serving comparatively deprived urban areas , while shockingly poor results will be shown for others serving similar areas . |
| 16 | We note the students ' concerns , they 're the staff 's concerns too . |
| 17 | The difference can be seen easily if we turn the Apostles ' Creed into a series of questions ( Do you believe in God , the Father Almighty ? etc. ) and then ask what reply is appropriate . |
| 18 | It is difficult to find scientific evidence of the value of using the Rogerian client oriented counselling method , which is widely advocated , and on this we share the authors ' doubts . |
| 19 | We reject the Conservatives ' unfair banding and discount system , which would create a property poll tax . |
| 20 | If we take the women 's case-room wages at Oliver & Boyd , the pattern is as shown in Table 7a . |
| 21 | They say the economists ' approach is winning a greater acceptance among doctors and health service managers because they appreciate that money is limited and choices have to be made on where it should be spent . |
| 22 | Not all firms are ‘ market orientated ’ to the extent that they put the customers ' needs and wants before all else . |
| 23 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | They get the mens ' numbers , but the men ca n't ring them . |
| 25 | Princes , he said , should not persecute discrepant opinions unless they were harmful ; all Christians who subscribed to the Apostles ' Creed should be tolerated , even Anabaptists , even Roman Catholics , for , though the latter 's doctrines were ‘ superstructures ill built and worse managed ’ , ‘ yet they keep the foundation ; they build upon God in Jesus Christ , they profess the Apostles ' Creed ’ . |
| 26 | The police , who are running their own campaign against rural crime , say they understand the farmers ' worries , but hope the private firms soon wo n't be needed . |
| 27 | Wright J. set aside paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order dated 5 June 1991 on the grounds that they infringe the defendants ' privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 28 | Reliable domestiques are the stars ' most valued comrades — and by long tradition they share the stars ' winnings . |
| 29 | As special deposits are compulsory , by using them the Bank can be sure of reducing the banks ' liquid assets , and they are equivalent to an open-market sale , in that they reduce the banks ' ability to increase credit ( and hence the money supply ) . |
| 30 | They understand children and they have the children 's best interests at heart . |