Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give me a chance to prove myself , Mrs Smelley , and then you would n't ‘ ave to come out in all weathers , when you suddenly discover you 've taken more bookin 's than you expected . ’ |
| 2 | That is why we should regard Labour 's albeit genuine crocodile tears as extremely salty . |
| 3 | The main industry 's that export to the US are Food and drink ; and Textiles . |
| 4 | As the mobile libraries have limited space , confirm with Library HQ 's that they are willing and able to carry the relevant documents/information before distribution . |
| 5 | Today 's well known examples of integration include such industry mammoth 's as Lotus ' 1–2–3 , Jazz and Symphony , Ashton Tate 's Framework , Microsoft 's up and coming Excel together with a host of upstarts like Twin and Integrated 7 from Mosaic . |
| 6 | We do that at me granny 's cos there 's lots of soldiers there . |
| 7 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
| 8 | When this occurred her pattern of sleep stages was more similar to a " normal " sleeper 's than a " short " sleeper 's . |
| 9 | And it was as if Boy was now suddenly the drowning one , and O was the lifeguard ; O slapped him twice around the face , pulled his head back by a handful of hair and placed his mouth over Boy 's before he had time to speak , and kissed him right there in the doorway of The Bar . |
| 10 | MAX : That 's mood , my love , not weather , and the mood 's because the shops are closed . |
| 11 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 12 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 13 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 14 | Her own capable , long-fingered hand seemed to dwarf the other girl 's as they shook hands in greeting , and Virginia inwardly winced again . |
| 15 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 16 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |
| 17 | When she drops the last bead , she picks up all the beads in that last hole ( both hers and her opponent 's if that 's the case ) , and continues to drop them , hole by hole , around the board . |
| 18 | because the obviously danger 's that it 's snapping the dowels and it 's which , it what happened on , on the case of the two dowels in n it ? |
| 19 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 20 | I wanted to go to Chimney 's it would be nice if it rained at Chimney 's cos there , we could go in the pond . |
| 21 | They 're all daddy 's because they 've got da on . |
| 22 | He wore a pencil moustache above which his nose twitched like a rabbit 's as he sniffed the wine glass he was holding . |
| 23 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 24 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 25 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 26 | Well , tha that was the , th th the first ladies ' hairdresser 's as I can ever remember . |
| 27 | Yeah , I know , but with them not knowing , friend 's because there 's so much disk swopping . |
| 28 | Yeah , but one of my videos is out oh what video 's that that you 've got ? |
| 29 | Do n't alter yours to fit another person 's unless the change is genuine ; |
| 30 | But certainly prefer to see that pensions , that encompass all working people and from the time that we 're men to work until they retire and that something is arrange for the person 's when they 're senior citizens . |