Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It originally arose through the wife 's account , and was covered by her allowances , and then the interest was then paid into a joint account |
| 2 | They sold off the mine 's equipment , including the water pumps that had kept the 1,500 foot shafts dry . |
| 3 | Perhaps Vincentius realised he talked too much and , changing the conversation , asked about the friar 's day . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State asked for the Committee 's comments . |
| 5 | Of course , the official asked for the father 's details , saw there was a profit to be made from the information and went straight to Lehmann . ’ |
| 6 | In a Northern Ireland accent he asked for the manager 's office . |
| 7 | Girobank handled £47m in retail deposits and transactions last year , which the bank says works out at £1 in every £3 which passed through the nation 's tills . |
| 8 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 9 | He pulled on a pair of folding sunglasses ( the sort you pay an extra load for to have ‘ Porsche ’ stamped across your field of vision ) as he made for the driver 's door , but even with them and the soft brown leather blouson jacket , which made him look a bit like an off-duty copper ( they get them cheap down Brick Lane ) , I still recognized him . |
| 10 | She bought wine at the off licence on the corner of Market Street and plunged between the bridge 's traffic , locked solid on a Saturday evening . |
| 11 | Under the second , a development agreement , which provided for the property 's development by the developers , the Prudential agreed to pay certain building costs . |
| 12 | She pulled herself out of the unsealed suit and peered through the shuttle 's windows at the featureless walls of the landing bay . |
| 13 | He was making an early morning cuppa in a back room when a milk float crashed through the shop 's brick wall and 12ft by 8ft window . |
| 14 | Too late Polly realised that her words were open to a very different interpretation from the one she intended , and her heart sank as the woman 's face creased into a hard-edged cynical smile . |
| 15 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 16 | As he moved past the man 's shoulder on his way back , Harry could not help glancing down at the book . |
| 17 | It made good copy and helped with the film 's publicity ; they also gave an insight into what others thought of Nicholson and the way he saw himself , then . |
| 18 | Charles II helped with the Town 's restoration , and since then the process of rebuilding and regeneration has been continuous . |
| 19 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 20 | One of the psychologists , who moved into the salesman 's world like witch doctors and made a killing , was Dr Ernest Dichter from Freud 's own city of Vienna , the ‘ father ’ of Motivational Research , whose institute could be hired to help sell anything for $500 a day . |
| 21 | Then I moved into the driver 's seat and we drove on . |
| 22 | Ollie moved into the Headmaster 's Study and Tom into Four . |
| 23 | He joked with the petitioner 's lawyer about growing old : and then he was gone , slipping through the curtains behind the bench . |
| 24 | They left him bound and gagged and fled with the night 's takings of six hundred pounds.For four hours Alan struggled to cut himself free . |
| 25 | The mouse antibody is matched and cloned with the patient 's antibody and reintroduced into the patient , and is now able to recognise and destroy the cancer cells . |
| 26 | ‘ — And sank into the water 's depth , |
| 27 | The issue is the only one of the ten points where Mr Dodds disagreed with the auditor 's recommendations . |
| 28 | The government disagreed with the plan 's provisions for the dissolution of the SOC administration and of the armed forces prior to a UN-supervised general election . |
| 29 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 30 | He drew in the horse 's reins and waited silently , his eyes momentarily tightly closed . |