Example sentences of "'s [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 2 | Shave men regularly and arrange women 's hair as they like it . |
| 3 | It is God 's intention that we cultivate it , improve it and harness its resources for our own use . |
| 4 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 5 | The shorter the boat , the more easily the boat goes off course and the more the paddle blade needs to move away from the boat 's side whilst we propel it forward . |
| 6 | Iago works on Othello 's vision-interpretation until he replaces it with his own . |
| 7 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 8 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 9 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 10 | The film became the American entry , by invitation , into that year 's Venice film festival and the New York Times ' critic , Bosley Crowther , summed up his nation 's embarrassment when he described it as a ‘ brutal picture which caused diplomats to mop their brows — a vicious account of boozing , fighting , pot-smoking , vandalizing and raping done by a gang of sickle riders who are obviously drawn to represent the swastika-wearing Hell 's Angels , one of several disreputable gangs on the west coast . |
| 11 | But in between meals , for tea and whenever they went out Jill relied on Farley 's Rusks because she knew it was a name she could trust . |
| 12 | He would have liked to have gone to his brother 's funeral but he thought it would only have made matters worse . |
| 13 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 14 | The wind suddenly seemed to have grown much colder , striking so fiercely against Jinny 's cheek that it numbed it . |
| 15 | It is this rage which draws us in , which has us participating in Hemingway 's feelings before we know it , that makes the piece so powerful . |
| 16 | Today , it 's known as Lolly 's Lagoon because she saw it first . |
| 17 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
| 18 | Trevor Magee had passed the small entryway to Long 's Court when he noticed it . |
| 19 | I think that that is over optimistic , I can not be confident that there will be any local authority provision at all , it seems to me that this particular provision is really vital to Paul 's education and I think it right to ensure that it is available . |
| 20 | It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there . |
| 21 | It shot past the wizard 's head and he watched it grow smaller as it plummeted towards the circle of upturned muzzles . |
| 22 | Do give her the chance of a night 's rest before you have it out with her . ’ |
| 23 | There was a fire at Mr 's store and they called it arson . |
| 24 | The bolting is clearly against the BMC 's policy and I think it is extremely unlikely that the BMC 's committee of management will accept any kind of amendment to that policy . |
| 25 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |
| 26 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 27 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 28 | I was even more impressed with the jacket 's performance when I wore it next to my skin — it has an antibacterial finish to the fleece which makes it suitable for this purpose . |
| 29 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 30 | There were hundreds of entries under Wells and a dozen or more A's ; none of them matched with Alison 's address as he remembered it ; and yet she 'd told him she was in the book . |