Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ‘ insanity ’ on IBM 's part to believe it could continue growing at 15% per annum , taking on more people and buildings as it went , he added . |
| 2 | At least Kathleen 's cooking meant she could manage a passable display of unconcerned eating , time to gather her wits a little … |
| 3 | But Holly 's presence ensured she could do neither . |
| 4 | first , my mother 's allergy meant she would sneeze every time she came near the owl , and , secondly , my little sister was so fascinated by Dawn that I could n't keep her away . |
| 5 | In those circumstances , if she returned or offered to return , her husband 's liability to maintain her would revive . |
| 6 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 7 | Kelly 's management say they will continue with measures to eradicate drug abuse on the premises and that following the incident they would be stepping up their own security . |
| 8 | One of the curiosities of the current debate is Wall Street 's reluctance to promote what could prove a multi-billion-dollar market , yielding fees to match . |
| 9 | The next brother 's wife said she would do this . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , with you home all day and Ernie 's wife saying she 'll come mornings and this Karen , well she wo n't want waiting on like Miss Maynard . |
| 11 | And the triple-A rated EBRD 's charter means it must invest according to conventional banking criteria . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister has pledged to add more weight to his Citizen 's Charter saying it 'll help people with complaints about delays in health treatment and problems with public transport . |
| 13 | I know in the recession of lot of parents have been forced to do just that , but it was always going to be a last resort and thankfully this winter 's tour means they can stay on where they are . |
| 14 | The tone of Walterkin 's voice implied he would dispute whatever answer Lucien gave him . |
| 15 | Almost immediately , Portugal 's government said it would cease defending the escudo , and that it , too , wanted to see its currency devalued . |
| 16 | ADRIAN ‘ FATAL Attraction ’ Lyne is considering a James Dearden-scripted remake of Nabokov 's pre-teen-temptress tragedy Lolita , previously filmed by Stanley Kubrick , Lyne 's recent Jacob 's Ladder suggesting he may do a decent job . |
| 17 | The country 's first local referendum on the Maastricht Treaty is to be held in Worcester … but the city 's MP says he 'll ignore the result . |
| 18 | Now , while I am at least mildly interested in his thoughts on evolution , why would the publisher of Angell 's book believe I would care what Gould thought about a baseball book ? |
| 19 | The journalists challenging the High Court ruling at yesterday 's hearing said they would pursue the case through to the European Court . |
| 20 | A pathologist 's report claims he could have survived up to half an hour after the wound was inflicted . |
| 21 | One trainee of the author 's acquaintance believed she could predict the movement of both specific shares and the market as a whole by the tapping of her fingers . |
| 22 | CROOKED tycoon Robert Maxwell 's widow wishes she could help the pensioners her husband robbed but says she has no spare money . |
| 23 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 24 | Reginald Oliffe 's solicitor says he 'll plead guilty when he 's able to attend . |
| 25 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |
| 26 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |
| 27 | They came to Corman 's office to establish what would become a lifelong , though intermittent , friendship between them and Nicholson . |