Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] ' [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after my divorce , I moved back into my parents ' home because I could n't cope with Anna Alone . |
| 2 | E. Dewell , 7 Church Drive , St Andrews Road , Bishop Auckland : I was having lunch at my parents ' home when my father-in-law , Frederick Dewell , telephoned me with the news . |
| 3 | The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 . |
| 4 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 5 | I suggest that we proceed along those lines and look for the most economic way to alleviate my constituents ' problems while not doing too much damage to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 6 | I hope that I can approach the issue as a fighter for my constituents ' interests while at the same time recognising the broader issues . |
| 7 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 8 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 9 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 10 | Did you put down my olds ' address or did you ? |
| 11 | " To keep them off my horses ' backs and their dirty droppings out of my horses ' feed . " |
| 12 | In the Declaration , participants challenged their continents ' churches and governments to take urgent steps to put democracy and respect for human rights at the forefront of their agenda . |
| 13 | Sarah looked at her sons ' faces and smiled . |
| 14 | Most treat the position as purely ceremonial , but they can actively preside over their courts ' proceedings if they choose , and in recent years a few have done so . |
| 15 | Similarly , if the company subscribing for new shares is listed , it may require its shareholders ' approval if the subscription constitutes a Super Class 1 or Class 4 transaction . |
| 16 | However , the employees also have responsibilities and are required both to exercise reasonable care , and to cooperate with their employers ' health and safety policies . |
| 17 | There are also specific duties on employees to use equipment in accordance with training they have received and to report dangerous situations and any shortcomings in their employers ' health and safety arrangements . |
| 18 | By not confronting its opponents ' lies when and wherever uttered , it gave them credence . |
| 19 | The two singles wins for Berkshire left the reigning champions in an irretrievable position and the home side added a dash more salt to their opponents ' wounds as they clinched a full eight victory points from the remaining doubles victory . |
| 20 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 21 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 22 | Perhaps they assume that if they are the customer they will be liable for their clients ' obligations as principal . |
| 23 | There will be a written test of the representatives ' knowledge of law and procedure and ability to think through a problem and formulate advice and a practical assessment of the representatives ' ability to argue their clients ' case and intervene appropriately and assertively during interview . |
| 24 | This helps them to respond sensitively to their clients ' suggestions and to furnish a diagnosis and accusation of guilt which is highly acceptable to the victim . |
| 25 | As professionals , committed to securing solutions to their clients ' briefs and aware of their social and environmental responsibilities , landscape architects can not be caricatured as a collection of irresponsible businessmen , intent on driving up clients ' budgets to serve their own greedy ends . |
| 26 | Married women observe vratas to keep their husbands safe and healthy till they themselves die , to increase their husbands ' fortune and to preserve their husbands ' affection . |
| 27 | Many women are filled with trepidation at the thought of their husbands ' retirement because they just want to do nothing . |
| 28 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 29 | Until May 1978 , all married women and widows had the right to rely on their husbands ' contributions and forgo claims to short-term benefits ( sickness , unemployment and maternity ) as well as claims to pensions in their own right . |
| 30 | But in fact married women remained totally dependent on their husbands ' contributions and the benefits husbands received on their behalf . |