Example sentences of "[pron] ['s] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 2 | As with educational broadcasts these are secondary sources , someone 's interpretation of the past . |
| 3 | Similarly , social workers can help ensure that where provision is available for protecting someone 's rights in the justice system , ( for example , appropriate adult provision ) the need for it is recognised and met . |
| 4 | Seconds later he 'd leapt into car with the kids , his bare torso on someone 's lap on the front seat . |
| 5 | We had Paul Gascoigne pulling someone 's shorts down the other night , and that was deemed to be a prankster at work . |
| 6 | Then he saw the glowing tip of someone 's cigarette behind the windshield . |
| 7 | ‘ But alcohol dilutes someone 's judgment to the point where they 're physically dangerous , ’ says Luke who ironically plays recovering alcoholic Dylan McKay in the teen series . |
| 8 | This is someone 's baby in the audience that we 're , we 're having a go at . |
| 9 | There 's someone 's motorbike in the hall , and we got to squeeze past it . |
| 10 | The only time we 've ev you know in pubs round here is like I said when it 's someone 's birthday in the family |
| 11 | Behind her the door-flaps clashed tiredly with the wind of someone 's movement in the common-room outside . |
| 12 | ‘ And if you can put a smile on someone 's face at the same time , that 's great . ’ |
| 13 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 14 | I was n't about to take somebody 's word on the phone about who wanted the dog . ’ |
| 15 | So if a piston ring breaks , then the chances are it 's somebody 's negligence along the way and it 's not a fault in the or mechanical breakdown . |
| 16 | A few of the most interesting objects ( with the owners ' permission ) will then be discussed by the experts for everyone 's benefit before the evening is rounded off with a buffet supper . |
| 17 | In your group , discuss everyone 's answers to the questions . |
| 18 | Macmillan 's exceptionally successful Mexican operation has been in place for years but now Mexico is everyone 's tip for the top — ‘ The most exciting country in the region , ’ says David Phillips of Linguaphone ; ‘ The biggest without doubt , ’ says David Stewart . |
| 19 | ‘ She is not everyone 's idea of the typical policewoman . |
| 20 | Lou was everyone 's idea of the cockney sparrow let loose to fly in a wider world than she had once ever known existed . |
| 21 | Whole schools do not happen because the head alone has a greater view of the school , they occur because everyone 's view of the school is extended and embraced ( Southworth 1988:327 ) . |
| 22 | Lastly , to ensure everyone 's safety over the Christmas period , get an electrician to install a whole-house residual current device ( RCD ) next to your main fusebox . |
| 23 | Clearly , not everyone 's reaction to the situation was the same . |
| 24 | God stopped all that of course by sneaking a hurriedly hand-written clause into the back of everyone 's bible in the middle of the night with a silver threepenny bit under everyone 's pillow . |
| 25 | The England manager accepts his decision as realistic and , even though Robson was never central to his establishment of a new generation , he summed up everyone 's sadness at the old warhorse 's parting , 10 short of the magic 100 caps . |
| 26 | The question of the date of everyone 's arrival at the gates of the heavenly city was , of course , crucial , and the main contribution of Hailey to the formulation of policy was to keep the question open . |
| 27 | As financial results improved and there was increasing reason to believe the slogan on everyone 's lips at the decade 's start , ‘ This is the age of the train' , morale deteriorated further . |
| 28 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 29 | Exhibition director David Robinson said today : ‘ Everyone 's expectations of the exhibition are different . |
| 30 | Set a short distance off a minor road , approached by a winding drive flanked by poplars , it was everyone 's image of the ‘ little place in France ’ , rustic but well-proportioned , manageably spacious , restrained but not austere , a Cotswold farmhouse with a French accent . |