Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that this conversation was adding little to my , or my listeners ' , knowledge of how to buy a coffin , so I thanked him kindly for his time and said goodbye . |
| 2 | Long ago the Vikings had a village where their ships ' crews rested and sheltered in the inlet of the River Hull . |
| 3 | In higher grade cases , some Down 's people have undergone operations , either at their own or their parents ' instigation , to alter the physical characteristics which have become a stigma for them . |
| 4 | Adults will watch the sexual emergence of their offspring , or their friends ' offspring , with a mixture of satisfaction , anxiety and envy . |
| 5 | Helicopters dropped experts onto unsuspecting villages in Nepal ; Tunisian women were coerced into buses to have loops inserted without explanation ; African women were given contraceptive injections against their or their husbands ' wills . |
| 6 | This means that whatever a lecturer 's status as an authority in his or her own epistemic community , the lecturer also has to possess as a successful teacher the authority to manage effectively his or her students ' learning . |
| 7 | In this case , the songwriter should retain his or her songs ' copyrights , and the publisher is responsible for administering the song catalogues ( collecting the money payable to the writer 's songs ) . |
| 8 | The Assembly , which was a kind of democracy , though a rather small , special and elite one , was liable to the bad democratic habit of rapidly overturning its own or its advisers ' decisions : so for instance Thucydides ( vi.89ff. ) implies that a single speech by Alcibiades was enough to make the Assembly reverse a decision not to help Syracuse in 414 . |
| 9 | For a discipline that generally deals simplistically with social relations , and rarely studies its own or its subjects ' histories , such an approach is especially important . |
| 10 | They have dismissed even the manifest economic growth generated by his policies , certain that any wealth created must have gone straight into his or his cronies ' pockets . |
| 11 | For the majority of us , the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ is a decade only experienced through our history textbooks , or our parents ' all too frequent reminiscences . |
| 12 | What this illustrates is that you ca n't take an institution at face value any more and certainly should n't select or dismiss an institution on your ( or your parents ' ) first impression . |
| 13 | As I approached the house , I noticed that my parents ' bedroom light was still on . |
| 14 | The first thing I had to learn was that my parents ' use of guilt was not for my benefit but for theirs . |
| 15 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |
| 16 | The Booksellers Association has confirmed that its members ' insurance scheme does cover booksellers for bomb damage of up to £100,000 in each relevant section of the policy , subject to a maximum claim of £600,000 . |
| 17 | Rosa has to come to terms not only with what her inheritance means to her but also with accusations that her parents ' brand of Communist radicalism ducks the real issue — the oppression of the black majority by the white minority . |
| 18 | Such retrospective interests are not uncommon but often elicit only disdain from the youths who see clearly that their parents ' belated enthusiasm is a product purely of the tangible rewards sport brings along . |
| 19 | She found that the recipients fought hard against the idea that they were ‘ at the receiving end ’ and went to great lengths to ensure that their parents ' support was reciprocated in some way . |
| 20 | It is particularly with respect to written language that foreign language teachers are surprised to be reminded that their learners ' written English is far from perfect and that they sometimes make higher demands than are made of native speakers by their colleagues in the school or , mutatis mutandis , by mother tongue teachers in the relevant foreign country . |
| 21 | If we were to look at the balance sheets of these other banks , we should find that their customers ' deposits had increased and that this increase was matched on the asset side by an increase in their operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 22 | The coalowners ' response in most areas was to give notice that their workers ' contracts were terminated from the end of the month : Nottinghamshire colliery companies did not follow this path , but the NMA felt bound to call a strike in solidarity with the MFGB . |
| 23 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 24 | Their speeches to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna delivered a double rebuff to China and other countries which say their circumstances are special and that their peoples ' rights are no-one else 's affair . |
| 25 | Tatsumi and Hashimoto also said that their banks ' excessive emphasis on profit had been an additional factor . |
| 26 | Head teachers felt that their assistants ' main needs were knowledge and training about classroom teaching , routines and methods as well as first aid and behaviour management skills . |
| 27 | Once again , this can not be the complete story , because some owners have observed that their pets ' daily intake is not always the same . |
| 28 | At Luxor the cruise ships often lie four or more deep at their moorings so that their passengers ' view can be of the side of the next ship instead of the river and the Theban hills , and the desert air is replaced by their neighbours ' diesel exhaust . |
| 29 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 30 | So did the French , probably at the theoretical expense of their own industries , which grew rather more slowly than their rivals ' . |