Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 2 | After a couple of glasses of champagne and a hamburger , and under the influence of my friends ' euphoria , I cheered up . |
| 3 | Eventually a rumour began to go around that I was having an affair with one of my friends ' husband . |
| 4 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 5 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 6 | But for Anglo-Canadians of my parents ' generation the rich immigrant culture of Toronto is more unsettling . |
| 7 | At least two of my contemporaries ' mothers were asked where their newborn babies ' tails were . |
| 8 | As discussions ensue , I am frequently surprised by the rigidity of my enquirers ' attitudes . |
| 9 | I do have to thank on behalf of my stewards ' committee er , Terry who gave us a lot of help and also the er , Regional Section who also helped us . |
| 10 | " To keep them off my horses ' backs and their dirty droppings out of my horses ' feed . " |
| 11 | I had a picture of my insects ' bodies . |
| 12 | Something is troubling the curly-haired boy I 'm playing with in the backyard of my grandparents ' house . |
| 13 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 14 | not drinking out of somebody elses ' glass are you ? |
| 15 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 16 | He is best known today for his early friendships with the Impressionist elite of Renoir , Fantin-Latour , Manet , Cézanne and Monet ( with whom he shared a studio for a time and discussed the possibility of organising an exhibition of their friends ' works by the official salon ) . |
| 17 | Because of their players ' League commitments in England , the Republic of Ireland have cancelled their friendly international against Yugoslavia on 14 December . |
| 18 | But they did , with a fervour that would have amazed the feminists of their grandmothers ' generation . |
| 19 | Hibernators can be recognised by frequent , short illnesses ; by regular hold-ups on their morning train ; and by the frequency of their grandmothers ' funerals . |
| 20 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 21 | In addition , they decide the quantity of the initial pressing of their artists ' recordings ( for a new artist 's first single this would be around 5,000 ) ; they liaise with the manufacturing plant to ensure further stock is available if it is needed ; and they avoid producing stock which would probably never be sold . |
| 22 | Along with the press and promotion staff , the marketing department has to ensure that every potential record-buyer is aware of their artists ' work . |
| 23 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 24 | AT THAT difficult and defiant age of 19 , it is perhaps quite extraordinary that The Prayer Boat have chosen to study so closely the catalogues of The Waterboys and Van Morrison — old men , of their fathers ' generation . |
| 25 | The speech of Lord Lowry , with which the other members of their Lordships ' House agreed , is a salutary reminder that the protection from action in the ordinary courts which is conferred on local authorities and others by the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman must not be carried too far . |
| 26 | But the only speech delivered did not consider this second point and the summary treatment of the appellant 's argument is reflected in the opinion expressed , at p. 633 , that the point certified and argued was scarcely worthy of their Lordships ' attention . |
| 27 | The basis of their Lordships ' decisions was that the minister could give a valid direction only if he was satisfied that no reasonable local authority could have decided as the Conservative majority did ; and that he could not have been so satisfied . |
| 28 | Rock ‘ n ’ rail Some months before the troubles developed in East Germany , one of the world 's more arcane organisations , the Ireland-German Democratic Friendship Society , announced plans to celebrate in Dublin the 40th birthday of their comrades ' dictatorship in the East . |
| 29 | Contrary to popular assumptions , German banks are preferred by criminals for money-laundering purposes because of their notoriously cavalier attitude towards the origins of their customers ' finances . |
| 30 | Normally this will be within six weeks of the end of the calendar quarter , but smaller businesses whose sales to other EC countries in a year do not exceed £10,500 out of a total turnover of £59,500 , need only submit a list of their customers ' registration numbers on an annual basis . |