Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lapworth 's academic career began as lecturer in chemistry at the School of Pharmacy in Bloomsbury ; in 1900 he moved to the Goldsmiths ' Company 's Institute at New Cross as head of the chemistry department . |
| 2 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 3 | Jerome Blum assigns the tsar pride of place in the list of factors which contributed to the serfs ' emancipation . |
| 4 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 5 | It referred to the Palestinians ' struggle for " sovereignty " and envisaged a future " confederation between the two states of Palestine and Jordan , which can be a cornerstone for our security and prosperity " . |
| 6 | Paul Walker added to the Harriers ' middle-distance medal tally by grabbing the bronze in the 800 metres . |
| 7 | These recently acquired spoils of war , added to the Trees ' well-documented generosity of girth and a general world-weariness alarming for men only in their mid-20s , lend the impression that a lifetime 's shift down that proverbial coal mine would be a less gruelling occupation . |
| 8 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 9 | Aunt Margaret came to the girls ' bedroom and unhandily undressed Victoria , although she could perfectly well undress herself . |
| 10 | Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors ' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley . |
| 11 | The Fijian captain , Waisale Serevi — whose side defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — came to the Scots ' hotel to say ‘ thank-you , good-bye and good-luck , ’ to the teams who had ventured to Fiji 's first such tournament . |
| 12 | I think but continuing down the corridor erm which was all the Education Department , you came to the typists ' room right at the bottom of the corridor on the left |
| 13 | With Ukrainian international Andrei Kanchelskis consigned to the substitutes ' bench carrying an injury , the main thrust of United 's attacks emanated from the skilful wing play of young Ryan Giggs . |
| 14 | While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street . |
| 15 | He retreated to the porters ' lodge and tapped on the window . |
| 16 | Whatever happened to THE RESIDENTS ' American Composers Series ? |
| 17 | One manager , who remains nameless , replied to the psychologists ' request for information thus : ‘ Please feel free to send your questionnaires to me and I will distribute them to the two or three players who can read and write and have an attention span of longer than two minutes . ’ |
| 18 | Princes , he said , should not persecute discrepant opinions unless they were harmful ; all Christians who subscribed to the Apostles ' Creed should be tolerated , even Anabaptists , even Roman Catholics , for , though the latter 's doctrines were ‘ superstructures ill built and worse managed ’ , ‘ yet they keep the foundation ; they build upon God in Jesus Christ , they profess the Apostles ' Creed ’ . |
| 19 | George Taylor was collected and he and Mrs Oliver returned to the tobacconists ' to be joined shortly by PC Chandler , an off-duty policeman who happened to be in Higatt 's too . |
| 20 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 21 | Some controversy arose over whether the adjective " voluntary " in the Spanish text of the agreement ( desmovilización y repatriación voluntaria ) applied to the contras ' demobilization or to their repatriation . |
| 22 | What led to the directors ' U-turn ? |
| 23 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 24 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 25 | At one point , Joan rose from the table and went to the ladies ' room . |
| 26 | Before leaving the station she went to the Ladies ' to check up on her appearance . |
| 27 | After he survived the vote , Mr Major went to the Whips ' office to thank them for their help . |
| 28 | In the autumn of 1959 I was eleven , and I went to the girls ' grammar school down the road . |
| 29 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 30 | Singer went to the Jews ' College School , London , where he subsequently became a teacher . |