Example sentences of "[noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then Mellor carted his wife and young sons down to the Halls ' home in Upper Beeding , Sussex , for a stage-managed ‘ happy families ’ photo-call . |
| 32 | In 1983 Philip Hollins , audit partner at accountants Hacker Young , was asked if his firm would act as the Halls ' auditor . |
| 33 | The Halls ' purpose is not simply to attract musicians such as Nigel Kennedy and Courtney Pine . |
| 34 | Changing tides and climate , new demands and general wear and tear are eroding Venices ' foundation . |
| 35 | The Zeppelins ' glory was short-lived – well-documented disaster , but in the 1930s the most romantic of all planes , the flying-boat , came to the fore . |
| 36 | On Saturday May 22 , at 7.30pm the Ulster Hall is the venue for the annual Orchestras ' Concert . |
| 37 | The pathologists ' evidence and his own observations suggested that James ‘ came by the fatal aspects of his injuries at some time in the early evening on Friday ’ . |
| 38 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 39 | William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation . |
| 40 | The guards ' toilet was halfway up the stairs to their room . |
| 41 | Trooping the colour on Horse Guards Parade each year in front of Her Majesty the Queen is one of the major events in the Brigade of Guards ' calender |
| 42 | Guards ' trial : Two Coldstream guardsmen were committed for trial at Teesside Crown Court when they made another appearance before magistrates in Whitby yesterday accused of a series of robberies while AWOL from their base in Germany . |
| 43 | I believe it was a V2 which demolished the Guards ' chapel in Knightsbridge during a service , killing dozens of men . |
| 44 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 45 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
| 46 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 47 | To go with the new Class 90s an order was placed for twenty-nine Driving Van Trailers ( DVTs ) to replace the old Mk 1 guards ' van . |
| 48 | Spectators said the Prince , playing for his Maple Leafs team at the Guards ' Polo Club at Smith 's Lawn in Windsor Great Park , seemed to wrench his back during the middle of the second chukka of the game . |
| 49 | The Prince aggravated an old back injury during a game of polo for his Maple Leafs team at the Guards ' Polo Club at Smith 's Lawn in Windsor Great Park yesterday . |
| 50 | Sarah 's father , Major Ronald Ferguson , is Charles 's polo manager , so she was frequently at Smith 's Lawn , the Guards ' Club in Windsor Great Park , where Charles was based , and inevitably she and Diana often sat chatting while the Prince played polo . |
| 51 | Named after one of the early kings of Ireland , he is a half-brother of the Irish Guards ' mascot . |
| 52 | P&O Roadtanks ' safety record is excellent but if one of their vehicles gets into trouble — be it breakdown , crash or spillage — police and fire services can quickly make contact with key personnel who are on call day or night . |
| 53 | In 1989 Japanese companies had secured shipbuilding orders for new vessels totalling 9,700,000 gross tonnes , double the total of the previous year , so that although orders for 1990 were down to around 3,000,000 gross tonnes , shipbuilders ' order books remained full until well into 1992 . |
| 54 | " On Free and Latent Semantic Energy " , by Claes Schaar , is based on informants ' interpretation of fragments of language in isolation , such as literary quotations , maxims and sayings . |
| 55 | Meanwhile , during October of 1756 , Anthony Tissington of Alfreton in Derbyshire , set men to work at Coniston on the westerly edge of the sett , that part which became known as Paddies ' End . |
| 56 | This figure ( about 18,830 tons ) does not include ore mined above the ever lengthening Deep Adit Level , or the numerous other adits such as Fleming 's , Taylor 's , Grey Crag , Middle , Top , Gaunt 's , or Kernal — the last five being at Paddies ' End . |
| 57 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 58 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 59 | The Scots ' reputation for industry may be called into question if the results of a P-E International survey are to be believed |
| 60 | it was a dismal ending to David Sole 's and Iwan Tukalo 's distinguished careers but the Scots ' inability to withstand the Wallabies ' dominance in the set pieces and their slick attack saw them suffer two comprehensive losses . |