Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] ' [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Against Moses ' expectations he also takes on the task of feeding his people . |
2 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
3 | On beginners ' courses we can have adults in four metre Europas alongside kids in Rotobats whilst the bigger kids soon move on to playboats and squirt boats . |
4 | While this transformation depends fundamentally on workers ' initiatives it could be aided by a government using the financing relation ( 4 ) as a means of leverage . |
5 | Mr Welsh said that in response to reporters ' questions he had refused to rule out any tactic because the party had not decided what its strategy on civil disobedience might be . |
6 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
7 | But his definition of style , like Jakobson 's of poetry , fails to allow for its multiplicity and changeability , even if it points to an important possible source of literary effect ; and in his claims concerning readers ' responses he attributes to these a degree of regularity which to many must seem quite unrealistic . |