Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire . |
| 2 | Yet Philip 's methods were those of his father and grandfather ; and although he had a clearer notion of feudal lordship and a broader canvas on which to exploit that lordship , even here he drew on his predecessors ' achievements . |
| 3 | Monsieur Tran Van Lung is a high official in the Ministry of Rites at the imperial court of Hue , " he added for his sons ' benefit . |
| 4 | The decision of Hoffmann J. in the Stoke-on-Trent case came before your Lordships ' House on appeal under the leapfrog procedure last year . |
| 5 | Before the appeal in that case came before your Lordships ' House , the Conforama and Marchandise decisions were published . |
| 6 | Just before the age of four , William 's first regal wave came from his parents ' horse-drawn carriage during a procession to celebrate the Queen 's 60th birthday . |
| 7 | After the conclusion of the first hearing , it came to your Lordships ' attention that an examination of the proceedings in Parliament in 1976 which lead to the enactment of sections 61 and 63 might give a clear indication which of the two rival contentions represented the intention of Parliament in using the statutory words . |
| 8 | He boasted of his ‘ loyal American underground ’ who informed on their colleagues ' ideological impurities of deed or word . |
| 9 | They arrived at her parents ' house a little before midnight . |
| 10 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 11 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |
| 12 | It is incredible to think that this trunk was collected from the house by the station Lorry , was sent by rail , Luggage in Advance , and was awaiting us when we arrived at our grandparents ' house . |
| 13 | People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born . |
| 14 | In this we must have succeeded , for I marvelled at our billetors ' ready assumption of it . |
| 15 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 16 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 17 | They talked of their husbands ' preoccupation with work , of their normal children 's too-early maturing , of integrated and special schools , and of eating — the hoped-for miracle diet for their child or , often , the consolation they found in food . |
| 18 | He washed and shaved at his parents ' pavillon . |
| 19 | Lord Ribblesdale thought of his grandparents ' house as ‘ my second home . ’ |
| 20 | Boddy , describing very slowly and emphatically how Asquith had died just before he could meet him , put his own hand through the same manoeuvre , and one by one all the other spare left hands disappeared behind their owners ' backs , too . |
| 21 | The 16-year-old girl went into her parents ' bedroom at 11pm to wake her father when he grabbed a revolver at his bedside and fired twice . |
| 22 | The real distinction however , McLeish thought in a flash of revelation , lay in their clients ' expectations . |
| 23 | How commonplace the human couple looked in their workers ' overalls . |
| 24 | But it 's decades since IBM last saw beyond its customers ' cheque books and recognised vulnerable human beings with hopes and fears , dreads and aspirations . |
| 25 | Becky had been admitted to hospital earlier with a stomach upset and died at her parents ' home the night she was discharged . |
| 26 | Sarah looked at her sons ' faces and smiled . |
| 27 | Although it was 12 years ago , both vividly remember the day they learned about their parents ' seperation . |
| 28 | Boyle also spoke of her colleagues ' traditionally mixed views about general practitioners . |
| 29 | Doing a lot of hitch-hiking , as I did from my parents ' house in Wales to London , I met many different people . |
| 30 | In the year since the discredited media tycoon died after falling from his yacht , only £27m of the £458m he plundered from his companies ' pension funds has been recovered . |