Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( pls. 1–12 ) Produced by nomadic and semi-nomadic tribesman ( semi-nomads spend part of the year in villages or settled camps ) whose life has traditionally revolved around breeding sheep , weaving rugs and raiding their neighbours ' camps . |
| 2 | Polite and featherlight , this is the record you can take home and make your parents ' goes tap along to . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Married women observe vratas to keep their husbands safe and healthy till they themselves die , to increase their husbands ' fortune and to preserve their husbands ' affection . |
| 5 | She went into the churchyard and found their parents ' grave . |
| 6 | He hoped the young man would relapse into muteness and leave him to read the privilege and privacy imbedded in this landscape , to note the pampered thoroughbreds grazing beyond the fences and glimpse their owners ' residences tucked down driveways discreetly screened by firs . |
| 7 | Thomas Paty then , with a whole sooty city teeming with skilled craftsmen to choose from , realised in wood and plaster his patrons ' commands . |
| 8 | She was an only child and hated her parents ' heated exchanges . |
| 9 | As well as the traditional function of protecting and furthering their members ' interests , they are also expected to play a role in the country 's development effort towards economic growth . |
| 10 | In practice , however , in the principal local authorities the political party organisations will oversee this process and manage their candidates ' election campaigns . |
| 11 | All the chairmen made an effort to reply to inaccurate or unverifiable press criticism , and to stress their Boards ' positive work in maintaining supplies in difficult conditions of great austerity , but experience proved truth to be of only limited effectiveness against prejudice . |
| 12 | Classroom Interaction stimulates teachers to explore the implications of the subject and , as a result , to understand and guide their learners ' initiative to greater effect . |
| 13 | Its absence from politics excites ruling-class fears of riotous rebellion and confounds its allies ' belief that suffering is the agent of revolution . |
| 14 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 15 | Accordingly , she quietly left the nurses ' station to go and take her patients ' before-lunch blood sugars , and carefully avoided Deana for the rest of the shift . |
| 16 | In The Mind Field Robert Ornstein , a psychologist , attempts to give a balanced view of the cults , current in the US , that purport to bring self-knowledge and to change their disciples ' consciousness . |
| 17 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 18 | … a golden age of pupil behaviour when children attended with regularity and did their teachers ' bidding without question … may have existed . |
| 19 | Both will help you to find the precise word you need and to lighten your readers ' darkness with vivid analogy . |
| 20 | From the garage he took a felling axe with a three foot handle and shattered his parents ' skulls . |
| 21 | It was callous of him to embitter and spoil their parents ' lives . |
| 22 | It 's our intention to take our researchers and our legal department around the regions to speak and to advise their representatives ' elected members on issues relating to . |
| 23 | Enthusiasm for the fame touched fresh heights in South Africa as supporters , for the first time , could plop themselves down in front of the television set and follow their players ' ( unpredictable ) progress in genuine international competition on the cricket fields of the world . |
| 24 | to understand and exceed our customers ' needs for high quality , value for money products and services ; |
| 25 | In this situation , sometimes called corporate pluralism , the state again resembles a machine which implements the bargains struck by the peak associations negotiating inside state forums and delivering their members ' compliance with eventual decisions . |
| 26 | It was a fundamental principle that we never er er er put aside , because we felt that er well as I say if , if a company was being profitable , there was every reason why we should go in and increase our members ' er er standard of living . |