Example sentences of "to [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis raced to the Gormans ' cottage and with great difficulty told the distressed couple what had happened . |
| 2 | On the way back to the Hankses ' cottage with Anna , Seb and the navvies met one of the gipsy women who had been enquiring after the missing girl in the village . |
| 3 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 4 | He had not yet been to the Hankses ' cottage to visit Anna , and it was of this the gipsy first spoke . |
| 5 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 6 | According to the Clarkes ' evidence in the Old Bailey court , Atra signed a contract with Virgin in September 1975 , under which Virgin were to directly handle certain Atra recordings . |
| 7 | Harking back to The Smiths ' early days , it is another stab at Victorian virtue : ‘ A crack on the head is what you get for asking . ’ |
| 8 | The damage to The Smiths ' run of singles was done , not by these two , but the previous 45s , ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ and ‘ That Joke Is n't Funny Anymore . ’ |
| 9 | In retaliation to the MacMahons ' comments that their son was ‘ frustrated and bored ’ at school , his former head teacher has said Nicholas is ‘ a very sad little boy ’ who may never know a happy childhood . |
| 10 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 11 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 12 | At nine o'clock , looking across the green to the Baileys ' house , stood the village school , a sturdy one-storey building of Cotswold stone in a playground of generous proportions . |
| 13 | She walked on to the Fourniers ' house , dragging every step . |
| 14 | Turn right near the pig window for the snowy alley to the Cochons ' place . |
| 15 | Ada Thompson who knew Herbert Varley who was married to a Jewish girl , asked Daisy , one dank and drizzling November afternoon two years ago , to come with her to the Mandelbaums ' . |
| 16 | One day in early February , Harriet walked up to the Raffertys ' cottage and knocked on the door . |
| 17 | I was not condemned to the Guérignys ' life sentence . |
| 18 | STEVE BALE talked to the Scarlets ' rebel with a cause . |
| 19 | They had been to the Maxwells ' for drinks and afterwards to see Shaw 's Saint Joan . |
| 20 | Graphically the game is up to the Codies ' usual high standards , the sprites being extremely cutesy ( I hate that word , it 's so barf-worthy ) . |
| 21 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 22 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 23 | Whether or not this setback represents an equally mortal blow to the Canaries ' title hopes remains to be seen , but manager Mike Walker was not amused . |
| 24 | Doing up an 18th-century house is small beer compared to the Stewarts ' next project . |
| 25 | Sally Lyle , who lives next door to the Stewarts ' luxury historic townhouse , said : ‘ No one ever spoke about the case because it upset Glenn so much . |
| 26 | Up the short avenue to the Hogans ' house ; the ground was wet and covered with leaves . |
| 27 | Part of this success must have been due to the Dottridges ' persuasive advertising : |
| 28 | Detectives investigating the case went to the Pryse-Jones ' former home in Haverhill . |
| 29 | Minton became a regular visitor to the Moynihans ' house in Old Church Street . |
| 30 | And the blissed-out mid-Atlantic tones it conjures up hardly do justice to the Beatles ' own thick and sardonic Liverpudlian accents . |