Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
2 | The girl who marked a Moscow Games ' baptism by placing sixth in a final at the age of 14 is coming for a Tuesday night clinic in which she will demonstrate her famous shrug-of-the-shoulders technique on breaststroke . |
3 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |
4 | ‘ Do n't Cry For Me Argentina ’ is n't quite right for a Falklands Veterans ' meeting . |
5 | The focus came from lighted candles ( outside the War Office in 1991 , on a Prague students ' grave in 1991 , in every blacked-out Polish window in 1980 ) , rather than crosswires and scanners . |
6 | An idea of the costs involved were given in a Coventry officials ' confidential report to councillors and fellow officials in the seventies . |
7 | A Sunday boys ' league official forecast that the league , of about 2,000 boys aged between 9 and 15 , faced collapse as the result of the price increase from £1.35 to £4 . |
8 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |
9 | She is redoing her A-levels in chemistry , physics and biology in the sixth form of a London girls ' school . |
10 | The engine ran successfully non-stop from Tywyn to Nant Gwernol with a TRPS members ' special before it was taken out of traffic . |
11 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
12 | The commander of the Western Front virtually ordered the Smolgubispolkom to eject school number 9 out of what was now a Volga orphans ' home run by a ‘ revolutionary military committee ’ . |
13 | Best stunned the audience at a Belfast footballers ' dinner with his racist outburst in an X-rated speech peppered with four-letter words . |
14 | Last week it put out a DCE Developers ' Kit for OpenVMS on VAX platforms . |