Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement from Germany 's Bundesbank seemed to rule that possibility out . |
| 2 | There was a pause while Gavin 's duty-neuron struggled to assimilate this information . |
| 3 | Tyson 's lawyer wanted to bring some women in or summat , these three women what would say what other , like go against her to say erm that she wou just wanted him |
| 4 | Stalin 's KGB managed to process more people through his concentration camps than the Inquisition managed through their courts . |
| 5 | Ursula 's concern for Samantha 's safety seemed to eclipse any grief she felt on Maurice 's account . |
| 6 | Although clerks were barred by canon law from arms and bloodshed , and indeed were excommunicated for such offences in the thirteenth century , the pervasive propaganda mounted by the clergy in support of the king 's wars served to overwhelm these inhibitions in the early fourteenth century . |
| 7 | In August 1917 the war losses concession of the Board of Trade did something to take the edge off a rapidly deteriorating situation and Wilson 's preoccupation with the Labour Party pacifists and the Merchant Seamen 's League tended to keep such matters off the pages of The Seaman . |
| 8 | The putative father of a boy of two was ‘ banned ’ by a High Court judge from seeing his child ‘ grow up ’ because the boy 's mother planned to marry another man and in the words of Mrs Justice Heilbron ‘ The boy might suffer emotional upheaval by having two fathers ’ ( The Times , 23 March 1988 , p. 3 ) . |