Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [pers pn] " 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 | If the officer is satisfied with the suspect 's response he need not proceed with the search . |
| 3 | In BR 's defence they say railways all over Europe suffer the same problems . |
| 4 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 5 | But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible . |
| 6 | Artistically they felt out of their depth here , but when it came to spending the town 's money they knew a lot more than Herr Busacher did . |
| 7 | In today 's money it would be about thirty five million . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | With Lissa 's money I picked up his tabs . |
| 10 | She says er no then she afterwards I says well do n't forget to get Kath 's money she said tell her I 'll phone her and I 'll be up about half past six , I 'll have to go and draw me money . |
| 11 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 12 | By the very act of reading on into the tale from the Miller 's Prologue we as readers allow ourselves to be manipulated into supposing ourselves somehow different from the readership of " " every gentil wight " " that is offered a warning and an invitation to : We know ourselves to be more complex beings . |
| 13 | D. A. A friend of mine was posted to a beat in Allerton and one summer 's afternoon he saw a young lad — about fifteen years of age — getting into a car . |
| 14 | He so detested the word ‘ Enterprise ’ , with its ring of commerce , that at Poindexter 's trial he scolded the prosecutor every time he used it . |
| 15 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 16 | The advantage to the male , then , is that by pecking at the female 's cloaca he probably enhances his chances of fathering some of the clutch . |
| 17 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 18 | Foresters ' Hall In a letter from Councillor Mrs. Brereton to Mrs. Burden of Juniper Green Primary School 's Board she states that she will do her utmost to ensure that the site retains its present planning use . |
| 19 | Foresters ' Hall In a letter from Councillor Mrs. Brereton to Mrs. Burden of Juniper Green Primary School 's Board she states that she will do her utmost to ensure that the site retains its present planning use . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Last year 's winner It 's time for Louise Nicholson to hand over her title |
| 22 | When I heard about Elsie 's foot I decided that I wanted to write about her to explore how she coped with her disability . |
| 23 | I 've stolen Mr 's thunder I think . |
| 24 | with the caveat that , in the light of your Lordship 's judgement we , we may wish to and change , erm first of all with regards to the commission , your Lord , your Lordships taken |
| 25 | ‘ Despite the victim 's slimness she looks agile and strong . |
| 26 | Whenever I hear talk of the problems of Northern Ireland 's peripherality I immediately think , peripheral from where ? |
| 27 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 28 | Some milk , ooh Becky 's milk you 're wonderful are n't ya , oh you 're wonderful turn it down too noisy , cos it 's loud |
| 29 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 30 | With the trunk 's support I slid down to kneeling , leaning head and left shoulder against the bark . |