Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
2 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
3 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
4 | " We started falling out over it , so we decided to form a tenants ' movement , " one of the tenants told me . |
5 | We did have a boys ' night out with Tim Cooper of the Evening Standard . |
6 | American style restaurants usually cater well for children so The Manhattan in Bradbury Place looked an ideal spot and they did have a kiddies ' menu . |
7 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
8 | Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools . |
9 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
10 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
11 | Shemaka had to survive a stewards ' inquiry before the result was confirmed . |
12 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |