Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One casualty of the war was the British Deaf & Dumb Association 's plans to celebrate its Jubilee year in 1940 . |
| 2 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Solar energy is converted by cells on the Solar Car 's flanks to drive its electric motor and recharge its back-up batteries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His one chance came just before half-time when a defender 's shins blocked his shot . |
| 7 | But if Labour 's leaders misplayed their hand in the last week , Paddy Ashdown 's behaviour was more damaging by far . |
| 8 | The spontaneity of metaphoric innovation in the speech of the professor 's children leads her to the revelation that words once thought of as ‘ the bare bones of language ’ are actually alive with flesh . |
| 9 | Ignoring the paladin 's complaints , Cleo kicked Contralto 's flanks to make him trot , and presently they came to a place where the path widened . |
| 10 | ‘ The scene does not seem right for a 1987 style crash , but the more cautious will be dusting off the chartist 's recommendations to see which shares can still be sold . ’ |
| 11 | Ansel Key 's subjects knew they were not going to be starved to death , being part of a controlled experiment under constant medical supervision , so in their cases the implications of hunger were not life-threatening . |
| 12 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 13 | " You , cat , must go and play about in the-garden of the tower , but do n't let the princess 's women catch you . " |
| 14 | And with that she took two of Granny 's pennies from her pocket , put her fingers on Granny 's eyes to push her eyelids down and placed a penny over each eye . |
| 15 | The editor 's notes reveal his disillusionment with the increasing commercialisation of the game although he calls for ‘ changes which would provide a dynamic , viable circuit for the professional game in the 1990s and beyond ’ . |
| 16 | Residents from Lakeside , Darlington , said Durham County Council 's plans to narrow their road and add speed humps could lead to serious accidents . |
| 17 | Sir , — We write in reply to an article detailing East Hampshire District Council 's comments following our successful appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for a private gipsy site for one family in Passfield . |
| 18 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 19 | The law 's supporters call it a victory for truth in advertising , which they predict will protect the market for authentic Indian crafts from cheap imported imitations . |
| 20 | We tell people who 've got a tan how healthy they look but , while there 's no doubt the sun 's rays give you a small boost of vitamin D , you get that from day-to-day exposure anyway . |
| 21 | There would need to be a reorganisation of share capital , so that management 's shares entitle them exclusively to receive an in specie distribution of the shares in Target , following which their shares in the holding company would become worthless deferred shares ( which could then be bought in by the holding company for a nominal price ) . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the pub 's owners say their business has been wrecked |
| 23 | However , in an interview with Dutch television on 1 October , the Russian Minister for Culture and Tourism , Yevgeniy Sidorov , did say that the drawings had been ‘ found ’ on Russian soil , and that an invitation had been issued to the Dutch ambassador to come and ‘ verify ’ the collection , which was probably moved last year to the monastery of Pavloviy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) in an attempt by the Pushkin museum 's authorities to save their reputations after repeated accusations had been made against them both by Russians and the Dutch . |
| 24 | ‘ The wood scraps found on the boy 's clothes suggested someone , somewhere , was doing some house decoration . |
| 25 | The boy 's parents said he was determined not to give up and would appeal . |
| 26 | Crushed to death : boy 's parents say they may sue for damages . |
| 27 | The 15-month-old boy 's screams woke his mother in the early hours . |
| 28 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 29 | Nana 's neighbours risked their rusted axles to carry up heavy goods for the store , and on the last Tuesday of each month the soda company sent a small pickup to collect its empty bottles . |
| 30 | For all the Chancellor 's efforts to tell us things will come right in time , it will take real , hard evidence that the deficit is coming down to protect Mr Lawson from the bitter mercies of the markets . |