Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any lender who displayed the Association 's symbol indicating he was a member was also publicly acknowledging adherence to the Code . |
| 2 | Chris explained : ‘ James here is our scorer and Mr Marshall signalled four wides when there was a wide and the ball went to the boundary , but the other side 's scorer says you ca n't have four wides at once , only one , and the other three must count as byes . |
| 3 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 4 | The second case was Hall v Avon AHA [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 516 in which the Court of Appeal held that the plaintiff can not insist , as of right , upon having his own doctor present when the defendant 's doctor examines him . |
| 5 | ‘ In addition to interfering with existing contracts , ’ said Lord Reid ‘ the defendant 's action made it practically impossible for the appellants to do any new business with the barge hirers . |
| 6 | Someone came to collect it , but the defendant 's mother withheld it and contacted the police . |
| 7 | CONNOISSEURS of the bizarre will recall the night Sheffield Wednesday players spent on wintry moorland , one of their ex-commando trainer 's ploys to get them out of the Third Division . |
| 8 | The Corporal 's face said it all . |
| 9 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 10 | Stuart Downing , editor of the club 's fanzine Fly Me To The Moon , was at Filbert Street , and said : ‘ It was his first goal and it was natural he wanted to celebrate . |
| 11 | The club 's chairman says he 's doing all in his power to persuade him to stay on . |
| 12 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 13 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 14 | Simpson says the club 's predicament left him little choice but to leave . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 17 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 18 | The winding path up the steep rocks was made more difficult by the darkness , and Ingrid was glad of the Norwegian 's hand to guide her . |
| 19 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 20 | But , of course , executive control of Parliament and Parliament 's supremacy over the courts mean that the constitution may become simply what Her Majesty 's Government says it is . |
| 21 | Armoured Hearthwares with red sashes belting their middles laboured on to the battlements with the defender 's weapons pounding them like smith 's hammers on an anvil . |
| 22 | That is important , and I am glad that the Opposition 's motion makes it so clear . |
| 23 | Hypocrisy of this kind derives from the agent 's conscience telling him of his evil , while his desire not to appear evil causes him to feign goodness . |
| 24 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 25 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |
| 26 | Cirencester tertiary college 's principal says he 's pleased with this years results . |
| 27 | Cirencester tertiary college 's principal says he 's pleased with this years results . |
| 28 | The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out . |
| 29 | And yesterday Labour 's rank-and-file kept him there as he won 533,000 votes in the constituency section of the election — which is decided by ballot . |
| 30 | It called for the appointment of a science adviser at cabinet level and early enough in the new president 's term to help him fill other scientific posts , an expanded Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) and access to expert outside advice . |