Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she passed the Haynes ' cottage , it seemed something was amiss there , too . |
| 2 | Mhoira Robertson was always ambitious and passed the sergeants ' examination at 24 . |
| 3 | Bomberg shared the Vorticists ' involvement with the machine-age dynamism of modern urban life . |
| 4 | Bloodied and shattered by the war , for 20 years the public shared the architects ' vision of a brave new world of pristine concrete , of high airy towers set in acres of green park-land . |
| 5 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 6 | It made the models ' sacrifice of their modesty seem poignantly vain . |
| 7 | A piteous cry revealed the occupants ' identity . |
| 8 | The acquirer 's solicitor should reserve the right to incorporate additional warranties when he has received all the information about the target , read the accountants ' report and read the draft disclosure letter . |
| 9 | In 1971 Jack Webb became the Bondholders ' Secretary , followed by Harold Chambers in 1975 up to 1981 , from which date to their winding up Basil Peacock held the reins . |
| 10 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 11 | After North became the contras ' overseer , in October 1984 , he tried , according to Rafael Quintero , to inculcate some honesty into them : taking Calero 's brother Mario off the contract for ponchos and boots ( the ponchos leaked , anyway ) and putting control of the contras ' foreign money in the hands of Secord and ‘ the company ’ . |
| 12 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 13 | In 1947 the party 's ‘ Industrial Charter ’ , a result of the work undertaken by the Conservative Research Department under Butler , registered the Tories ' acceptance of the ‘ welfare state ’ and the ‘ managed economy ’ . |
| 14 | Besides the map , I 'd brought along my faithful compass , and by its reckoning checked the boys ' direction all the time . |
| 15 | During his time at the BBC , when the Home Secretary , Leon Brittan , asked the Corporation not to show a documentary in the Real Lives series dealing with extremist politicians in Northern Ireland , it was Rees-Mogg who led the governors ' demand that the management acquiesce . |
| 16 | The 6ft 10in Scott Paterson led the Riders ' scoring with 26 points . |
| 17 | Defending solicitor Mr. Blundell asked the magistrates to consider whether Mr. Thurgood would have played the part of peacemaker and then gone out and attacked the soldiers ' car . |
| 18 | Ron Atkinson , the Sheffield Wednesday manager , yesterday promised the shareholders ' AGM that the team will not be relegated and will climb from the bottom of the First Division by Christmas . |
| 19 | He said the decision to hold the meeting in North Wales demonstrated the Americans ' commitment to the area . |
| 20 | Mr Clayton drew the inspectors ' attention to a village in Argyll , Scotland , where power lines ran along the main street . |
| 21 | In 1846 he entered the engineers ' department of the River Clyde Improvement Trust , shortly afterwards becoming chief assistant and in 1852 acting engineer to the Trust for a short period on the death of David Bremner [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | At the beginning of August , a new political dimension entered the Ks ' story . |
| 23 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 24 | The innovative work of the Department of Design caught the Princess ' eye — in particular , the model by graduate Elaine Mossman of a an integrated postal service machine or Mailing Access Point and the Satellite Guided Grass Mower designed by 1991 graduate Alan Kitchen . |
| 25 | This remarkable effort soon caught the critics ' attention . |
| 26 | Potts J. dismissed the defendants ' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action . |
| 27 | The judge dismissed the solicitors ' summons . |
| 28 | On 29 July 1991 Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 857 dismissed the solicitors ' summons but gave them leave to appeal . |
| 29 | I was more concerned with persuading Agnes to go for a walk in the tree-lined garden , and foolishly dismissed the Ralembergs ' unease . |
| 30 | The General Commissioners dismissed the taxpayers ' appeal , accepting the Crown 's arguments that there was one practice and that an election under para 21(2) could not be made where a trade was split into two . |