Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was casing Barbs 's place and she came right into the garden . |
| 2 | THE Health Secretary Mr Kenneth Clarke yesterday rejected claims that he was trying to break the ambulancemen 's strike when he told MPs he had decided the army would be mobilised to help to answer emergency calls in London . |
| 3 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 4 | Mr Lang is also expected to turn his criticism on parents who neglect their children 's education and who fail to teach right from wrong and respect for others . |
| 5 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
| 6 | Now , well you ca n't have one , you ca n't have a children 's day cos you do n't do anything |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not the slightest bit interested in you — or what you wear ! ’ she hissed at him beneath the sound of the children 's laughter as they jumped off the bed , and scampered about the room . |
| 8 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 9 | Beth feared for the children 's sight as she lurched forward to grab the branch . |
| 10 | The children 's plan when you come to it , very clearly shows a very sensible wish to move from expensive specialist placements , and expensive residential community home placements to more fostering , more teen care , more work with families in the community . |
| 11 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 12 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |
| 13 | Formal consent must also be sought from the Reporter to the Children 's Panel if we propose to share certain information provided by the Reporter . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you hear any sound from the children 's room when you came past the door ? ’ |
| 15 | I Children 's World and I got I got books . |
| 16 | Chris Williams and Alan Warren from our advertising department raised £350 for the Great Ormond Street children 's hospital when they took part in the Round London marathon in March 1990 . |
| 17 | A highlight was a party in the children 's hospital where we gave presents to all of the children , mums and staff as well as handing over medical supplies and a lap-top computer . |
| 18 | ‘ It may well be that the factors which influenced the sheriff are strongly mitigating and should be given proper consideration by the children 's hearing when they come to consider the future arrangements for L on the footing that the grounds of referral are now held to be established . ’ |
| 19 | Parents may understandably often try to deny the reality of their black children 's unhappiness because they like to think that their children are secure and happy , thus reflecting their success as adopters . |
| 20 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 21 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 22 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 23 | Mahler needed to become a conductor of other men 's music before he became a real composer . |
| 24 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 25 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 26 | I have stuck with Esquire longer than I have stuck with any other men 's magazine and I feel that the magazine is now getting very close to achieving the ideal balance of content and format . |
| 27 | Suddenly the Yeti turned up in the men 's department where I worked . |
| 28 | He was Pickles 's slave and she treated him like one . |
| 29 | A fairly rushed programme but involved in going to Stranraer Women 's Guild where she communicated extremely well and was delighted to see Christian Aid work at local level . |
| 30 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |