Example sentences of "['s] [noun] it " in BNC.

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1 From Ernest Green 's response it is clear that , as Organising Secretary for the National WEA , he had been unaware of the details or significance of the original Bedfordshire transfer agreement and later that month , when writing to Pateman about the Board 's proposals for Cambridgeshire , he claimed :
2 In today 's money it would be about thirty five million .
3 but she said I want , no , Keith had three thousand we ought to have it and erm , I said it 's mum and dad 's money it 's got nothing to do with you , you 've got kids , we 've had that money
4 When approaching a detailed ratio analysis of a company 's accounts it is helpful to group the ratios under three main headings to measure different aspects of the company 's activities .
5 To aid the overall analysis of the contractor 's programmes it is often appropriate to request at tender detailed programmes for each structure or major work area programmes for shutter , falsework and scaffolding erection and movement resource schedules against work elements , and movement charts for labour and plant .
6 However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates .
7 Last year 's winner It 's time for Louise Nicholson to hand over her title
8 In Lawrence 's essays it goes along with that familiar stance of hard-earned adjustment whereby sickness is always someone else 's problem — the masses , the modern world , women , homosexuals , whoever .
9 In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s .
10 Rather language acts as a substitute for the thing , or in Derrida 's formulation it acts as a supplement .
11 In keeping with this traditional matter went another , equally traditional : ‘ Spare the rod and spoil the child , ’ though in Leonard 's case it was not ‘ the rod ’ but the dog-lead that reminded him of his responsibilities , accurately wielded by his mother .
12 Like the Holy Ghost , ascending and descending on the foreheads of the Apostles , only in Maggie 's case it 's voles and fieldmice . ’
13 In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon .
14 While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good .
15 Bukharin began his critique by quoting from a letter written by Marx to his friend Kugelmann on 11 July 1868 , and since it is a keystone in Bukharin 's case it is well worth reproducing the same extract here .
16 While this view could equally have generated stoicism , in Mum 's case it led to self-pity .
17 In Earth 's case it developed a secondary atmosphere through organic evolution , say supporters of the Gaian hypothesis .
18 But in the North Berwick branch 's case it is not only still functioning but has been electrifies .
19 In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner .
20 In Enya 's case it all clicked into place , the Ryans finding a receptive ear in Rob Dickins , the Chairman of Warner Music in Britain , who took a close personal interest in the making of ‘ Watermark ’ , and then ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ .
21 In Fiona 's case it was the Inverness Nordic Ski Club which put her name forward .
22 And in Hoover 's case it is especially relevant because , according to numerous crime sources , the reason that Hoover never pursued organised crime after the late '30s was that the mob , in the shape of Meyer Lansky no less , had the mockers on him because of evidence of his homosexuality . ’
23 In Cosmas 's case it was different . ’
24 In Britain 's case it also remains true that she has to make up in sales to the world outside the EEC that which she loses by running a heavy deficit with the Community .
25 Cats will happily go to anyone who feeds them — and in Sybil 's case it was anyone who fed her ego . ’
26 In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind .
27 I do n't know what rugby coaches tell their try scorers before a game … let's hope in Gloucester 's case it 's something good because the Cherry and Whites are chasing the championship … we start our weekly roundup with them : here 's Mark Kiff
28 In Whitham 's case it was different and he certainly was what could be termed an inspired choice by the Lightweight club .
29 Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May .
30 But from Hobbes 's description it seems as though its very contemplation filled him with a trembling , timorous fear .
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