Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one particular aspect to which all commentators drew their readers ' attention : his sensuality , referred to above . |
| 2 | Again all good schools already monitored their pupils ' progress , so how could one object ? |
| 3 | She went into the churchyard and found their parents ' grave . |
| 4 | Lest I be accused of caricaturing the West Indian family 's approach to its child 's education , let me add some tempering comments from sportsmen who found their parents ' blend of discipline and encouragement satisfactory . |
| 5 | A doctor found his patients ' interest in his electric wheelchair useful in this respect , and a social worker found that his guide dog helped : ‘ Even when there 's an awful atmosphere he 's wagging his tail . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The news came as the Task Force announced its members ' implementation plans , and the list includes an impressive series of hardware and software vendors . |
| 8 | While her mother helped her choose the famous blue engagement suit which she bought from Harrods , she asked her sisters ' friend Anna Harvey , the fashion editor of Vogue magazine , for advice on building up her formal wardrobe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | It should be noted that the Court recognised our members ' concern about low pay and lack of career prospects . |
| 12 | During the visit , which came shortly after the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union ( " Operation Barbarossa " ) on June 22 , 1941 [ see pp. 4667-69 ] , both leaders confirmed their countries ' friendship . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the course of visits to Prague , the Czechoslavakian capital , and Bratislava by French President François Mitterrand on Sept. 13-14 and by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 16-18 , both leaders expressed their countries ' regret at having signed the 1938 Munich agreement , which had allowed Nazi Germany to dismember Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | Roman portraits of public figures emphasised their subjects ' fitness to hold public office and their personal authority as heads of families . |
| 16 | Boro were due to play at Kelso , but declined their hosts ' request to play tonight . |
| 17 | On Radio 4 's Start the Week , Potter emphasised his characters ' aloneness — separated by passages where the writer does his directorial exercises . |
| 18 | She forgot about the taxi , and instead hurriedly dialled her parents ' number . |
| 19 | Violette , armed only with a sten sub-machine-gun , covered her companions ' retreat through standing corn for twenty minutes until she had no more ammunition , and was taken prisoner . |
| 20 | Six months later their two sons inherited their parents ' fortune as sole beneficiaries . |
| 21 | It failed , and the general purged the armed forces and created a power structure that strengthened his supporters ' hold on the military . |
| 22 | The journey had made her worse , and when she reached my parents ' house , she collapsed in pain on the settee , from where she was unable to get up . |
| 23 | The results , he added , vindicated their members ' concern about the reductions in public transport . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The second was that ‘ hypersensitive ’ Presley — scheduled to leave on a 10-city tour — feared his fans ' reaction to seeing him weighing more than 16st and out of condition . |
| 26 | Following this incident Richard Baxter took his friends ' advice and moved to Gloucester for his own safety . |
| 27 | He shared his parents ' bedroom and the old man and his widowed daughter slept in the other room with a blanket on a line dividing them . |
| 28 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 29 | A scientist who got his pilots ' licence just last week is off to Indonesia on an extraordinary mission . |
| 30 | Welcome back.A scientist who got his pilots ' licence just last week is off to Indonesia on an extraordinary mission . |