Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Shirer , whose CBS broadcasts went out from the Rundfunkhaus , noted in his diary that Goebbels 's Ministry of Propaganda thought the drawling nasal voice ‘ wholly unfit for broadcasting ’ . |
| 2 | Iraq 's defeat in Kuwait inflamed the Shias of southern Iraq . |
| 3 | The men 's fear of change took the form of vociferously defending the status quo in which after all they had everything to lose . |
| 4 | Professor Charles Robertson of Strathclyde University 's department of architecture confirmed the gloomy prognosis . |
| 5 | Inevitably , Saturday 's rout of Wales evoked the 1951 match but , though the difference was only one point , the matches had little else in common . |
| 6 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 7 | Tshwete 's return from Australia saved the day and secured visas for the six beleaguered South Africans . |
| 8 | Tuesday night 's match at Fulham yielded the side 's heaviest defeat of a poor season . |
| 9 | Last week 's meeting in Paris presented the results of a two-year study of the competing projects . |
| 10 | Charles 's avoidance of battle denied the English their chance of victory , but he could not succeed in driving the English out of their strongholds around Calais and Bordeaux which they had the will and the resources to defend . |
| 11 | In February 1940 he had raised the possibility with Read of starting a group of " Anglo-French " intellectuals , with headquarters both in London and Paris , but Hitler 's invasion of France rendered the idea inoperable . |
| 12 | But the troubles of the industry began well before Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait sent the price of jet fuel from 60 cents a gallon to more than $1.30 . |
| 13 | A coroner 's court in Darlington heard the accident happened at the end of a pedestrian zone in the German town of Lemgo , last October . |
| 14 | But Falkenhayn 's assault on Verdun disrupted the Allied plans . |
| 15 | Beth 's smile in return gladdened the girl . |
| 16 | But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate . |
| 17 | For most of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas 's policy towards non-Russians took the form of " inter-national " rather than " international " relations . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't be shy — call me Naylor ! ’ he thundered , and suddenly Leith 's sense of humour got the better of her , and she burst out laughing . |
| 19 | Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring scandalised the audiences at its first performance … ten years later it was an established classic . |
| 20 | On the other hand , Ceolred 's attack on Ine demonstrated the harsher reality of that desire for military prestige and territorial aggrandizement which is the more constant feature of Anglo-Saxon political history in this period . |
| 21 | Wolf 's treatise on Homer laid the foundations at the end of the eighteenth century and a celebrated edition of Lucretius by Karl Lachmann represents the completion of the edifice in 1850 . |
| 22 | A short ceremony in the king 's chamber at Westminster marked the end of the Angevin Empire , in the form which it had assumed under Henry II and his sons . |
| 23 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 24 | David Murray 's arrival at Ibrox sparked the much heralded Rangers Revolution . |
| 25 | There could be no Durkheimian solution to such ills , for Freud 's model of man-in-society included the idea of instinctual gratification and repression , and it is this dimension which is lacking in Durkheim 's thought . |
| 26 | And Glentoran 's win at Larne put the final nail in their faint qualifying hopes . |
| 27 | But because of his private trainer status Sibton Abbey 's win on Saturday marked the first time Murphy 's name had been credited as trainer of a big race winner . |
| 28 | Trustees of the family 's shareholding in Ferranti commissioned the report on ISC to help them decide whether to support the takeover . |
| 29 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |
| 30 | Calvin 's doctrine of election had the consequence that no earthly priesthood could arrogate the authority to determine whether an individual was of the elect . |