Example sentences of "[det] [verb] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to aiding the illusion ( see below ) , this slows the adventurers ' reflexes ( I -10 while in this room ) . |
| 2 | Maybe this records the Girls ' first sighting of the nudes ! |
| 3 | This weakens the splitters ' argument that to reconstitute high-level meaning from the basic ingredients requires only the right recipe . |
| 4 | It was not long before German shells landed among this helpless pile , but at least this reduced the doctors ' work . |
| 5 | This confused the Girls ' uncomplicated minds as they knew the couple were still living together . |
| 6 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 7 | This removes the tenants ' choice . |
| 8 | Some of the major questions to be asked are : what changes are occurring in the economic relations with former client states — Cuba , Mongolia and Vietnam — and how far is this affecting the latters ' future economic development ? |
| 9 | Some think the agencies ' analysts risk becoming too friendly with the companies they rate . |
| 10 | At its extreme , this becomes the slimmers ' disease , anorexia nervosa . |
| 11 | Negotiation with community language classes through questionnaire or confidential interview yields rich insights which can do much to enhance the learners ' participation , as can discussion with older pupils and pupils who have recently left school . |
| 12 | On these rested the employers ' capacity to break any strike , while the union 's strength lay in its capacity to " picket out " the vessels and shipping offices concerned and to dry up the supply of blacklegs by intercepting the trains on which they arrived and by organizing the ports from which they had been recruited . |
| 13 | These use the authorities ' potential , through planning permission , loans , and contracts to press firms into Good Employer practices . |
| 14 | Several factors have recently been identified as being capable of influencing the performance of H pylori serological tests : these include the patients ' age , histological findings , H pylori antigens , and , as suggested by this study , NSAID intake . |
| 15 | First of all to thank the Surveyors ' Department for cooperation on various things that have taken place and where possible the altered or amended suggestions have gone in er themselves . |
| 16 | Beyond that lay the Germans ' barbed wire , and beyond that still the Germans , waiting for them in their trenches . |
| 17 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 18 | So until further notice from me , you are to consider yourself confined to the Battalion area — that means the Officers ' Mess and your company billet — except when on duty of course . |
| 19 | that brings the trees ' |