Example sentences of "'s [noun] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights . |
| 2 | Mr Hill , a joint master of the Aylesbury Vale Hunt , had held the reins of his wife 's horse Max after it had landed on a five barred gate during a hunt . |
| 3 | This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time . |
| 4 | Many a time had Preston 's youthful slumbers been disturbed by the sound of the deluge from Nan 's bedroom window as it hit the corrugated iron roof of their garden shed and the wild feline howls as their coitus was so balefully interrupted . |
| 5 | THE average Teesside businessman 's concentration span when it comes to matters economic was sorely tested last week at accounts KPMG Peat Marwick 's Budget seminar last week . |
| 6 | Based on the MLT results , the Well Evaluation group is now trying to minimise the lower layer 's formation damage and it focuses on the reactivation of the lower portion of the upper layer 's production capability . |
| 7 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 8 | One flailing arm caught Twoflower 's picture box as it skittered past on its tripod . |
| 9 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 10 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 11 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 12 | Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie . |
| 13 | That way it may get out of the bat 's flight path before it enters the detection range . |
| 14 | Coun Vera Moody told Langbaurgh 's planning committee that it had been a long-standing problem with young people congregating in the shopping parade . |
| 15 | PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to look at alternative means of toughening the law on Scotland 's knife thugs after it emerged that urgently-awaited legislation has been edged out of the parliamentary timetable . |
| 16 | Although the pond now lies under the garden and the road , it is still possible to trace the mill 's tail race as it flows to meet the stream in the gardens of Westbury Court . |
| 17 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 18 | Without a word she untied it and stuffed it into Werewolf 's lapel pocket until it looked like a dress handkerchief , then she moved behind him and pulled the sleeves of his jacket up to the elbows . |
| 19 | This year , for instance , the council asked for permission to spend £25m on tackling the town 's housing problems but it has been allocated only £3.8m one third of which is earmarked for improvement grants to private homes and the rest to ongoing council schemes . |
| 20 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |
| 21 | Jimmy Johnson sank his teeth into the family 's bull terrier as it had the arm of an 11-year-old boy locked in its jaws . |
| 22 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 23 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 24 | This gun was in fact called His Majesty 's Gun Blastbuster and it required a contingent of a hundred troops to operate it . |
| 25 | Five-month-old Charles Goodchild , from Nanpean , near St Austell , was in the front of the family 's Ford Sierra when it crashed with a lorry near Liskeard , Cornwall . |