Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were sitting in Jacob 's study and he looked from his sister to his father in amazement . |
| 32 | ‘ Luke 's coming and I do n't want to see him ; I could n't bear it . ’ |
| 33 | He picks me up in his mother 's car and we drive through Colonia Escalon to a roundabout where cars park beside Snack stalls . |
| 34 | our Colin 's car and he said and I 'll shop and that 's when he told me about Margaret . |
| 35 | A cross-wind batted Jackson 's car and he twitched the wheel to correct the sudden drift . |
| 36 | and then on top of that he took the battery off Pat 's car and it fell over in the front so all the acid burnt the carpet ! |
| 37 | I am grateful for the Minister 's reply and I know that she will have been as horrified as the rest of us by the images and the conflict that was reported from Somalia last weekend . |
| 38 | The succulent fish turned to sawdust in Polly 's mouth and she had difficulty swallowing . |
| 39 | Then I moved into the driver 's seat and we drove on . |
| 40 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 41 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 42 | The traffic was too heavy for her to go to the driver 's side and she stormed along the pavement to the offending car and opened the passenger door . |
| 43 | She realised that she had imposed on Miss Hatherby 's kindness and she blushed for her lack of consideration . |
| 44 | Rumours have circulated Manchester for some time over Sharpe 's future and they intensified after he was sent home from pre-season training with what United described as a virus . |
| 45 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 46 | Our offer secures Wheway 's future and I urge Wheway 's board to recommend it . ’ |
| 47 | If the guests wo n't dance when the host expects them to , has depended on them to , that 's the band 's fault and they do n't get paid , or only after an argument . |
| 48 | Erm in the afternoon at St William 's College and I think that 's ab I do n't know what it 's about two pounds fifty or something . |
| 49 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 50 | Take the word ‘ vibe ’ out of the Dublin hipster 's vocabulary and you render him speechless . |
| 51 | ‘ I take six of the younger ones out on Vita 's Girl and we see how they shake down . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ He 's Garry 's boss and he thinks he can dictate his every move . ’ |
| 53 | Tragically the rope tied around Mrs Love 's ankle slipped from her husband 's grasp and she fell to her death . |
| 54 | In their anomalous behaviour electric arcs seemed to defy Ohm 's Law and she discovered the cause of this . |
| 55 | Versailles was a victor 's peace and it created a minefield of unresolved national problems in central Europe . |
| 56 | We turn left at the foot and come panting onto a platform where there 's only one old man sitting in his grandfather 's overcoat and he looks like he 's settled for the night . |
| 57 | But she was his son 's child and he cared for her . |
| 58 | The relatively well off , the ‘ best people ’ of the provinces , therefore , welcomed Ivan 's proposal and it appears to have been widely implemented . |
| 59 | For example Candy , who started off as a fairly minor part in the book , became part of George and Lennie 's dream and they became a ‘ threesome ’ . |
| 60 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |