Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 The soldiers race into a wasps ' nest , driving the occupants out .
2 So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club .
3 Here we would just like to mention briefly some of the studies that came out between 1980 and 1986 , which attempt to develop accounts that would be either specifically feminist or draw upon a women 's point of view .
4 and then go for a paratroopers '
5 To the New York Times Pebbles was ‘ the English filly who drinks a pint of stout every morning and went to post in the company of a British gelding she has a crush on ’ ; in the 1985 Breeders ' Cup Turf at Aqueduct she ‘ overcame a poor start and traffic problems to beat the boys by a neck ’ and provide Britain 's first win in a Breeders ' Cup event .
6 I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London .
7 A man has been remanded on bail charged with possessing drugs after a police raid on a travellers ' camp .
8 Extract from a teachers ' guide ( Nigeria )
9 I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way .
10 oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people .
11 like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them
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