Example sentences of "from [adj] [noun pl] 's [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It was as a mere 12-year-old — forever doodling characters from favourite children 's stories — that Albert Uderzo set his heart on becoming France 's answer to Walt Disney . |
2 | For the tweeny years , fed on pantomimes , theatre-in-education tours of schools and TV series stage spectaculars , there are few plays taken from popular children 's books ( could you include Shakespeare ? ) . |
3 | Er of course it took a bit of time to learn as to er you know the the rotation who the to take the tea from various men 's buckets , they was buckets , or wher wherever they had their stuff in their bags . |
4 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
5 | It is a wise man who learns from other men 's mistakes , but a wiser man who learns from his own . |
6 | Prior to the Assembly , delegates took part in a meeting of women communicators , and were joined by representatives from local women 's groups involved in development communication . |
7 | Second-wave feminism in Britain has drawn strength from working-class women 's campaigns , like the 1968 Ford strike , the Grunwick dispute , and the women 's groups active in the 1984 miners ' strike . |