Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 We perhaps had a works ' er we had to have a works ' holiday yeah .
2 Over the years , the VMA gradually became a students ' association and at the first general meeting of its 45th session , on 19 October 1880 , John H. Steel , the secretary and librarian , announced ‘ the Veterinary Medical Association , while having wide sympathies with its members who have become qualified practitioners , is now the Students ’ Society of the largest British Veterinary School' .
3 The government also accepted a Lords ' amendment specifying special needs as a factor that may bc taken into account in the resource allocation formula .
4 In about 1813–14 he organized in Bermondsey a society of workmen which virtually constituted a Mechanics ' Institute , almost ten years before those established by Leonard Horner [ q.v. ]
5 One time my friend and I accidentally kicked a bees ' nest , a small , round ball hidden behind the leaves some 10cm above the ground .
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