Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 7 Kaifu , Ishida and DSP chairman Keigo Ouchi announced their parties ' support for the candidacy of Hisanori Isomura , 61 , a television presenter and executive from the Japan Broadcasting Corp . |
| 2 | Boyd borrowed his parents ' car , brought Johnson up to the family home in New Jersey , and charged his friends a dollar each to attend the impromptu concert . |
| 3 | Following this incident Richard Baxter took his friends ' advice and moved to Gloucester for his own safety . |
| 4 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 5 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 6 | On Radio 4 's Start the Week , Potter emphasised his characters ' aloneness — separated by passages where the writer does his directorial exercises . |
| 7 | In Dickensian days Fagin had his thieves ' kitchen in London , where he taught youngsters to pick pockets . |
| 8 | It was a minute to midnight when Joan and John reached her parents ' house as the bells were beginning to ring out the old year . |