Example sentences of "servants ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 2 | She is famous for berating and lecturing people , ministers , civil servants , TUC delegations , and the House of Commons ; ‘ rubbish ’ or ‘ what mean ? ’ and other rude comments are annotated to civil servants ' papers . |
| 3 | The character of the original house is very much intact , with open fireplaces , shutters and servants ' bells echoing a previous age . |
| 4 | In their words ( p. 6 ) : ‘ the political administrative culture of British Central Government is a shadowy realm usually left to the chance observations of politicians ’ memoirs and civil servants ' valedictions , . |
| 5 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 6 | This one and the next , Chalk Farm , were tiled in white and buff , reminding her of the servants ' bathrooms at Temple Stephen . |
| 7 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 8 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 9 | Civil servants ' salaries were to take 17 per cent of government expenditure in 1990 , with a further 14.7 per cent devoted to foreign debt service and 8.2 per cent to subsidies on food and to state companies . |
| 10 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 11 | Whereas the family sitting-rooms and bedrooms were heavy with drapes and solid mahogany , the servants ' quarters in the attic were small and bare . |
| 12 | Almost all the attractive parts of the house could remain operative : the extensive servants ' quarters — including the back corridor , the two still rooms and the old laundry — and the guest corridor up on the second floor would be dust-sheeted , leaving all the main ground-floor rooms and a generous number of guest rooms . |
| 13 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 14 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 15 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |
| 16 | In his post-war writings authorial intention , banished to the servants ' quarters by Richards and the American New Criticism , was restored to a dignity it should never have lost ; and his abandonment of discipleship to Richards now looks with hindsight both belated and inevitable . |
| 17 | Or that London bobbies were too often to be found whispering sweet nothings to kitchen maids , and tucking into pastries in servants ' quarters on foggy nights , when they should have been out walking the beat . |
| 18 | In the old days — the good good old days — a member of the family would never even consider entering the servants ' quarters or the kitchens . |
| 19 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 20 | As a beginning , it illustrates the division , acceptable to Kerr , of England into two nations , both in its external appearance , where the servants ' quarters are reduced in size and in ornament , and in the detail of its plan : |
| 21 | The barns , stables and servants ' quarters had been made into more or less monastic cells in which visiting artists or writers could work or sleep off the night 's excesses , alone or together . |
| 22 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 23 | The top storey was a one-bedroomed apartment , rooms that had once been servants ' quarters in the tight spaces where the house narrowed towards the roof . |
| 24 | The ‘ commun ’ was used formerly as servants ' quarters and kitchens . |
| 25 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 26 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 27 | Which is why Londoners north of the Thames think going south of the river is like stumbling into the left-over servants ' quarters , down in the basement where decent folks do n't go . |
| 28 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 29 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |
| 30 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |