Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , these ‘ inactivity ’ spaces are decorated in the Edgsons ' inimitable style . |
| 2 | Urquhart had come to the Nowaks ' house , Blanche thought , for the same purpose as her — an illegal search for clues about Marek 's past activities . |
| 3 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 4 | The 82,000 cars in the capital emit levels of exhaust fumes which , in congested areas , are 70 per cent above those permitted by the Netherlands ' national environment plan . |
| 5 | In 1829 he was one of the three judges for the Rainhill locomotive trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , won by the Stephensons ' ‘ Rocket ’ . |
| 6 | Of course , the original John Birch model is still owned by the Sabs ' mainman . |
| 7 | A party of techs hastened past the Wolverines ' hiding place . |
| 8 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 9 | A number of non-oil-producing LDCs borrowed unspent OPEC reserves , channelled through the ACCs ' banks . |
| 10 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 11 | Any outstanding payment will be collected through the Booksellers ' Clearing House at the end of January . |
| 12 | Their firm , Wild Thing named after The Troggs ' hit officially starts next week , making large papier mache models and sculptures . |
| 13 | And then he discomfited her utterly by keeping that silence until he had turned into the Hamiltons ' driveway , switched off the engine , and opened the boot to retrieve her luggage . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I have , have n't I , ’ he had agreed cheerfully , clearly pleased at the speedy , efficient response to the phone calls he 'd made from the Meadowses ' ranch house the day before . |
| 15 | In these early days the Germans very much followed the Dutch leads ; indeed the regulations introduced in 1980 for restraining traffic in residential roads were a straight translation of those adopted in the Netherlands ' Woonerven . |
| 16 | The action moved to the Saints ' end where a cross from Kiwomya eluded Dozzell and Whitton but fell kindly for Guentchev only for the Bulgarian to blaze his shot over the top . |
| 17 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 18 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 19 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 20 | Maggie had been stewing meat , and now she rolled out pastry with a heavy glass roller like the one Mrs Martin had used in the Bradfords ' kitchen . |
| 21 | Laughton refuses to be drawn on the Leeds ' target , but he is keen on Great Britain tour scrum half Deryck Fox , valued at £150,000 after telling Featherstone he was determined to leave before the start of the new season . |
| 22 | STEVE BALE talked to the Scarlets ' rebel with a cause . |
| 23 | I became more and more used to the Houys ' ideas and way of life . |
| 24 | He contended that since the transfer had been induced by the Hammonds ' fraud , both the registration of the Hammonds as proprietors and the registration of the building society 's legal charge could be described as having been ‘ obtained by fraud . ’ |
| 25 | He was forgiven and rapidly advanced by the Commons ' managers , joining the important recess committee ( September ) and chairing the inquisitorial information committee ( January 1642 ) . |
| 26 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 27 | Tales were exchanged of the Lovelocks ' exploits . |
| 28 | Compared with the Parsons ' previous dinner party , this was a relaxed affair . |
| 29 | I was not condemned to the Guérignys ' life sentence . |
| 30 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |