Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun pl] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contributed time and money generously to Warrington : he was mayor in 1882 , alderman in 1885 , and freeman in 1891 ; he built a working-men 's mission , and supported schools , the library , the infirmary , and other institutions . |
| 2 | Top ticket price at Washington 's Uptown Theatre was £6,500 , the lowest £150 , while about 300 inner-city youngsters went free as proceeds boosted a children 's charity . |
| 3 | ALLISON Fisher scored a women 's record break of 133 last night — but she still lost 5-4 to Irish champion Joe Swail at the £224,000 Dubai Duty Free Classic . |
| 4 | A judge in another area declared a women 's entry : ‘ By far the best I have seen this week . ’ |
| 5 | The programme showed a children 's nightdress which is sold in the shops for £1.10 . |
| 6 | For quite other reasons she joined a women 's therapy group , and in the course of the work stumbled into the unrealized intensity of the pain her barrenness was causing . |
| 7 | Then they faced an admen 's nightmare as one by one their heroes failed . |
| 8 | At this stage the Dalek casing housed a children 's tricycle , seated on which the operator could steer and pedal his machine . |
| 9 | In effect , the Bermuda talks produced a gentlemen 's agreement that neither country 's airlines would take unfair advantage of the market . |
| 10 | Also in the wake of the 1918 Franchise Bill , the Party formed a Women 's Section under Dr Marion Phillips and appointed regional organizers to attract to newly-enfranchised women . |
| 11 | a Baptist lay preacher , managed a working-men 's restaurant . |
| 12 | In 1943 , men who had been invalided out of the Pioneer Corps formed an ex-servicemen 's club , identified by the initials NB — non-British . |
| 13 | At that time we also ran a children 's hospital , so that I had the opportunity of seeing the effects of treatment on acute surgical cases , both pre- and post-operatively , as well as dealing with some fairly ill children and a good mix of diagnostic and management problems in the adult unit . |
| 14 | Mm , actually we had a women 's campaign last year did n't we ? |
| 15 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 16 | The status of a small-town or country station would be marked by whether it had a women 's waiting-room or not . |
| 17 | Bomb number one rocked a men 's toilet in the John Lewis department store while it was still being cleared . |