Example sentences of "' [noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 2 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 3 | The girls ' parents had held her in high regard and they had become firm friends . |
| 4 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 5 | Yet the tone of her telephone call to Swans ' Meadow had implied she knew nothing of Samantha 's abduction — or of what her kidnappers had demanded in return for her release . |
| 6 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 7 | ' Nervousness had left him entirely , when the crisis of decision was past . |