Example sentences of "at [pos pn] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revolutionary propaganda inspired by events in Russia had an effect , but the chief cause for mutiny lay in the soldiers ' disgust at their commanders ' inept leadership , Nivelle 's in particular . |
| 2 | She sighed as she turned in at her parents ' tasteful wrought-iron gate . |
| 3 | While Naomi reads a fat paperback in the parked taxi outside , the psychotherapist ( Mitteleuropean Earth Mother , in a book-lined Hampstead house that smells of the world 's best coffee ) poses questions on everything from Rainbow 's grief at her parents ' early deaths to how often she was scolded in primary school . |
| 4 | Meanwhile his sister Rachel , 20 , has had only one encounter with the media — at her parents ' glitzy silver wedding anniversary party at London 's Inner Temple . |
| 5 | One week at his parents ' opulent home in Beverly Hills was all he could bear . |
| 6 | In this we must have succeeded , for I marvelled at our billetors ' ready assumption of it . |