Example sentences of "'s [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 2 | A great cornucopia from Hanlon 's tumbled its fruits on the kitchen table . |
| 3 | A provision for the partners to bring in to the firm 's account their fees and other remuneration derived from offices and appointments held by them ( see below ) ( Clause 10.06 ) . |
| 4 | She was back at Madame Tussaud 's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world 's most celebrated Hall of Fame . |
| 5 | He then spent 18 years taking still shots for posters until Saatchi and Saatchi 's asked him to direct a small commercial . |
| 6 | ‘ Hugo Brassard 's asked her to join him in a new agency . |
| 7 | ‘ Nahum 's asked me to be his best man … |
| 8 | Just do as Giles Aplin 's asked you , and keep quiet about it . |
| 9 | The swine 's asked you questions now . |
| 10 | Not in day-to-day practice , perhaps , but by Trent 's accepting his relationship to the Colonel as an inevitable part of his life . |
| 11 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 12 | ‘ Melissa 's upset you , I can see that , but I 'm not to blame . ’ |
| 13 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 14 | The CA 's Make Your Own Will Action Pack , Pounds 9.99 , includes forms and a 50-page advice booklet . |
| 15 | The week after their LP , Pleasure Dome , entered the charts at number one it was displaced by Wham 's Make It Big and the Frankie moment was over . |
| 16 | The museum also houses a stuffed creature dubbed Bowes ' answer to Dr Dolittle 's Push Me Pull You . |
| 17 | Now essentially this also relies on the children 's using their imaginations to find answers — as in the case of the ‘ sewer ’ and the ‘ Lost Valley ’ contexts — but the difference is that ( a ) each ‘ find ’ is given due weight and attention , is publicly shared , evaluated , accepted or rejected , ( b ) the focus within which their imaginations can have free range is defined from the beginning , i.e. the puzzle is clear — ‘ what could be a logical solution ? ’ is the name of the game , and ( c ) the problem-solving does not have to be hurried by action . |
| 18 | The opening shots were fired yesterday when Sainsbury 's announced it would cut prices on hundreds of popular brands by at least 25 per cent from Sunday — with many at half price . |
| 19 | " There 's only one thing I 'd like to do , beloved , and that 's eat you alive . |
| 20 | * The girl 's rode their motor-cycles through the corn . |
| 21 | Under the moon 's influence his mind had flown giddily on , like a witch straddling a broomstick . |
| 22 | Lisa 's fits me now . |
| 23 | No one at St. Paul 's shared his interest in natural history and ‘ the naturalists , whom these boys knew nothing of . |
| 24 | When used in conjunction with the function of Devil 's Advocate you can push the children to a point where they refuse to take orders ; they have to persuade you that what you are proposing is wrong . |
| 25 | Nope Tesco 's sell them . |
| 26 | At three months it is the weakest of the womb , that is li that is for everyone , if anybody 's got a weak inside well they 's lose it , they 's be liable to lose it more than anybody else with out taking anything . |
| 27 | That Henry was now thinking of Richard 's keeping his duchy is suggested by the plans he was making to install John as King of Ireland , but what price would the Old King demand in return for this concession ? |
| 28 | His tone was ingratiating which was another reason , apart from his mannikin looks , for Ian 's disliking him . |
| 29 | It is the word which came up time and again in the story of Jacob 's tricking his dying father . |
| 30 | ‘ Chester 's has its own design management team . |