Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would delight me to be able to buy you presents ; to take you with me to my friends ' houses , to the theatre , to Biarritz , to Cannes — wherever it pleased you to go . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 3 | HOME TO MY PARENTS ' PLACE . ’ |
| 4 | By the time I got back to my parents ' house my face was grey . |
| 5 | When I need a ‘ top-up ’ , I go back to my parents ' farm near the Brecon Beacons in Wales for lambing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 8 | In Wheeler v. Leicester City Council ( N. L. , 1985 ) following the decision of four members of Leicester Rugby Club to tour South Africa , the Local Authority , landlords of the club 's ground , banned the club from using the ground for a year because they were dissatisfied with the club 's response to its members ' actions . |
| 9 | A second part of the technology brings , what Reebok calls ‘ Custom Cushioning ’ to its shoes ' midsoles . |
| 10 | In ordinary language use , the three functions represent three coexisting ways in which language has to be adapted to its users ' communicative needs . |
| 11 | From his period of employment in an Irish pub , Amiss was well accustomed to its denizens ' congenital gregariousness : this went hand in hand with a complete inability to understand anyone else 's need for peace . |
| 12 | She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her . |
| 13 | This was partly due to her parents ' disapproval of her boy friend . |
| 14 | Latterly , Elizabeth had married but had been the victim of a cruel and brutal husband , and had retreated to her parents ' home at the post office where she fell ill and later died . |
| 15 | The memory of how beautiful advertising executive Elizabeth never backed down from danger still manages to bring a sad , proud smile to her parents ' faces . |
| 16 | It was a testimony to her parents ' efficiency . |
| 17 | As this is being written ( in 1985 ) , the publicity given to the case of Jasmine Beckford , who died after she was returned from public care to her parents ' care , will ensure that social workers will once again be reminded of the need to respond to the apparently contradictory demands of society both to intervene effectively and to respect family autonomy . |
| 18 | They then returned to the offender 's home , but the victim left immediately and returned to her parents ' home . |
| 19 | She ran out of the room , down the stairs to her parents ' bedroom . |
| 20 | It was all very well living in London , or , when her mother insisted , at the house in Brighton , but they were not her houses , and although she was almost twenty she was still very much subject to her parents ' control . |
| 21 | Upstairs the flat was empty ; Anne evidently had n't returned from her monthly visit to her parents ' home in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | No longer feeling the need to escape at every opportunity to her parents ' home , she talked and laughed , openly relaxed . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's gone to her parents ' . ’ |
| 24 | John Murphy 's daughter had separated from John Neal and returned to her parents ' home but Mr Neal continued to call , often drunk and at odd hours . |
| 25 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
| 26 | This is an example of opportunism by middle managers , due to their superiors ' inability to check their claims about what is actually in the best interests of the firm . |
| 27 | Providing that there was no threat to their members ' jobs , trades unions felt that they had a free hand in wage negotiations , often seeming to pluck numbers out of thin air and try it on with employers . |
| 28 | The American circuit is nowadays so tough that its players mostly have no option but to work if they want to hang on to their players ' cards . |
| 29 | This group 's inferior class position is linked to their families ' origins as immigrants , and is compounded by poor incomes and racism . |
| 30 | The time may have come to urge a historic settlement , whereby people in Essex can hang each other to their hearts ' content so long as they do not interfere with traditional sporting practices in the rest of the country . |