Example sentences of "[prep] my parent ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 2 | Doing a lot of hitch-hiking , as I did from my parents ' house in Wales to London , I met many different people . |
| 3 | Asked where I lived , I replied that I was staying in my parents ' flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 4 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |
| 5 | When I need a ‘ top-up ’ , I go back to my parents ' farm near the Brecon Beacons in Wales for lambing . |
| 6 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 7 | I used to get frightened at my parents ' house in Wales when the boys from the village asked me to play with them . |