Example sentences of "' [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 2 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 3 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 4 | The Discussion Paper illustrated ‘ split accounting ’ and ‘ the imputed interest method ’ and sought respondents ' views on them , although it did not propose that these methods be required . |
| 5 | Or , to turn these questions around , what relevance do these intra-collegial debates over the ‘ proper place of general practice ’ have for everyday medical work and the participants ' views of it ? |
| 6 | He said , I thought they might be used to prove Mrs Jones ' case against me , so I panicked . |
| 7 | Cars , provided by the company , have become the physical symbols of the employees ' progress through it . |
| 8 | The beech trees of Yarm 's Beech Tree Court are to stay , says Stockton Borough Council , despite residents ' calls for them to be given the chop . |
| 9 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 10 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 11 | In the case of definite pronouns , we have shown that mapping from roles to roles and from roles to names can be influenced by manipulating the experimental task and , presumably subjects ' perception of it . |
| 12 | He was inexperienced and little known before he was propelled into the highest office by his friends ' ambition for him and by the deadlock between Long and Chamberlain in 1911 . |
| 13 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |
| 14 | Tell her you 've come to take her to the ol the pensioners ' club on her , on your bike . |
| 15 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 16 | Today 's game I thought would be a good opportunity to rub the buggers ' noses in it . |
| 17 | There were four of them ; they had shared the dead youths ' clothing between them . |
| 18 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 19 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 20 | A salesman at one licensed dealer used to read his clients ' horoscopes for them . |
| 21 | They were treated like children , not young adults and the 11 p.m. rule imposed on the Beida students without consultation was symptomatic of the authorities ' attitude towards them . |
| 22 | As far as other union members ' attitude towards us , I think that we did get an enormous amount of support from like-minded colleagues in organizing around issues of race and sexuality . |
| 23 | We have a Residents ' bar for you use and a pretty sea facing patio garden for you to relax in . |
| 24 | For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent . |
| 25 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 26 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 27 | The fact that it is underrepresented highlights the need to draw translators ' attention to it . |
| 28 | And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ? |
| 29 | The young rabbi spoke about the tasks which God had given his prophet and Moses ' reaction to them . |
| 30 | The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble . |