Example sentences of "her parents ' [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1	She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her .
2	Diana no longer felt so different because of her parents ' divorce but because a voice inside her told her that she would be separate from the herd .
3	She had inherited a substantial sum of money from her parents ' estates and devoted herself to works of charity .
4	John Murphy 's daughter had separated from John Neal and returned to her parents ' home but Mr Neal continued to call , often drunk and at odd hours .
5	At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham .
6	She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter .
7	Her parents ' house but not her parents ' house .
8	After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air .
9	Maisie had moved out of her parents ' house and come to stay at the Wilsons ' shortly after her mother 's funeral , a multi-denominational affair dominated by the headmaster of the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys ' School ( Day ) .
10	A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary .

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