Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | and J J , she got one week 's money did n't she ? |
| 2 | ( No one believes that last year 's award did wonders for the sales of New Scientist — how many of our readers even know about the awards ? ) |
| 3 | Despite the initial support of the boycott by international operatic stars — most of whom were at the time on contract to work with him — Barneboim 's case did not excite much public sympathy in France . |
| 4 | Another stipendiary magistrate , heard argument about abuse of the process and came to the opposite conclusion from Mr Bartle , namely that delay in Mr Cherry 's case did not constitute an abuse of the process . |
| 5 | These cases must therefore have been regarded as distinguishable , presumably on the ground that Slater 's case did not involve any refusal to perform a service unless an unlawful payment was made . |
| 6 | ‘ Torold 's description did n't do you justice . ’ |
| 7 | But the board 's decision did not come without conditions . |
| 8 | The comments and questions with which Ace and Daak interrupted the Professor 's story did n't annoy Defries : she found that the breaks gave her the time she needed to stretch her credulity . |
| 9 | But Mark Bowen 's miss did not deflate manager Mike Walker , who proudly leads his side into the final 20 games with a three-point lead . |
| 10 | Let's stop trying to get women to support us by crawling to them — it 's obvious they prefer voting for devils or weeds than for decent men ( let alone decent women ) , and bribing them with a Women 's Ministry did n't work . |
| 11 | Or , rather , not quite at home since Mrs Rose 's kitchen did not smell of herbs and spices and Provence . |
| 12 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 13 | The fact that it was a man 's bike did n't trouble her too much . |
| 14 | Cos she asked last night , I was supposed to be taking Jenny and then when Fay came she asked me if I 'd take Fay as well today so it looks as though Charlotte 's mum did everybody took everybody home . |
| 15 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 16 | The treaty 's economic implications had been underlined by Kuchma on Oct. 31 when he claimed that Ukraine 's budget did not permit " the multi-billion dollar expense " involved in removing strategic missiles . |
| 17 | The warden 's cottage did n't have water laid on until 1949 . |
| 18 | The Queen Regent Luiza of Portugal was so anxious for this alliance that a secret treaty was drawn up in case England 's Parliament did not consider Tangier and Bombay sufficient as Catherine 's dowry , in which Madeira too would have been ceded to England . |
| 19 | The Carmen model also worked well and has retractable bristles , so Linda 's hair did n't get tangled . |
| 20 | Jay 's heart did a Pavlov tattoo . |
| 21 | Zambia 's heart did a flip . |
| 22 | But to survive an arrow a mile from a road with a killer around to make sure I did n't make it … where in one 's mind did one search for the will to survive that ? |
| 23 | Sean Walsh 's mind did a slow careful calculation , then he came to a decision . |
| 24 | The inquiry into Puddephat 's murder did not feature at all . |
| 25 | The headlines were smaller this time and Bayly 's religion did n't merit a mention in the Press . |
| 26 | China 's action did not , however , affect its participation in separate multilateral talks on Middle East arms control which opened in Moscow on Sept. 15 . |
| 27 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 28 | Though Booth 's study did produce categories of poverty which showed that many people who were in employment were still below the poverty line , and Rowntree 's work was memorable , not only for the detailed way in which he examined the financial needs of households , but also for his concepts of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ poverty and the ‘ poverty cycle ’ . |
| 29 | Last night 's programme did not have an auspicious start . |
| 30 | Yeah , Stuart 's card did you get a card off ? |