Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , the kids were my kids ' age , and , like , my kids still believe in Santa . |
| 2 | I sell Amway products because the company operates only by direct selling ( not through retail shops ) , and I saw being a distributor as a chance for me to raise funds for NCT ( and my kids ' playgroup ! ) |
| 3 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 4 | If you are able to meet my clients ' price expectations by revising your offer , I would then propose that you meet with them this month to exchange their and your thoughts for the future . |
| 5 | " These are mine , " he said , " for naturally I ca n't give you pears from my brothers ' share . " |
| 6 | I do have to thank on behalf of my stewards ' committee er , Terry who gave us a lot of help and also the er , Regional Section who also helped us . |
| 7 | With a neat and elegant sideways kick of her high-heeled white sandal , she closed the door behind her and sat herself down opposite me in my visitors ' chair . |
| 8 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 9 | But for Anglo-Canadians of my parents ' generation the rich immigrant culture of Toronto is more unsettling . |
| 10 | stopped at my parents ' window . |
| 11 | The plum was my parents ' tree , |
| 12 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 13 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 14 | But after my divorce , I moved back into my parents ' home because I could n't cope with Anna Alone . |
| 15 | E. Dewell , 7 Church Drive , St Andrews Road , Bishop Auckland : I was having lunch at my parents ' home when my father-in-law , Frederick Dewell , telephoned me with the news . |
| 16 | I took with me , against my parents ' will , a treasured possession : a plank of wood . |
| 17 | I was just not prepared to let that go when I sold Low Birk Hatt because it was my parents ' dream house . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was not my parents ' child , but I did not know that then . |
| 20 | My parents ' anxiety stirred like a loose tooth |
| 21 | The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 . |
| 22 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , my parents ' marriage slowly hit stormy weather and they split up . |
| 24 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 25 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 26 | in my parents ' grave . |
| 27 | My parents ' solution was to take Ann into their bed , and Robert and I did what we could to look after them . |
| 28 | When I need a ‘ top-up ’ , I go back to my parents ' farm near the Brecon Beacons in Wales for lambing . |
| 29 | As I approached the house , I noticed that my parents ' bedroom light was still on . |
| 30 | My shrink says it 's my parents ' fault . |