Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the opposition accused Mr Rifkind of rushing today 's defence debate because everything hinged on the public spending settlement to be announced next month . |
| 2 | Stopping a man 's afternoon wages after he lost a leg . |
| 3 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 4 | Each remembered all too clearly Okawi 's parting words before they had pushed each canoe clear of the beach : |
| 5 | Jack was puzzled at Johnnie 's sudden change in behaviour and although initially he reasoned that his colleague must be troubled with a domestic problem , he could not forget Johnnie 's parting words that he intended to leave the box for good . |
| 6 | There had been quarrels , resulting in his refusal to go — into his father 's printing business and his leaving home altogether at the age of eighteen . |
| 7 | They will now be moved into one of the three remaining homes for the elderly on the city 's west bank and it is understood that staff will also be deployed at these units . |
| 8 | Adults with cystic fibrosis become known to ACFA by transfer from the Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust 's mailing list when they reach the age of 18 , or by direct referral . |
| 9 | ‘ This is Connor 's sister Rosie and her son Abram . |
| 10 | But the family at Shurton evidently warmed to Coleridge in spite of his views , and it was to Henry 's sister Lavinia that he would later address his affectionate short poem ‘ To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever ’ . |
| 11 | Her mum was Ann , that was Olive 's sister Ann and what was , what was the do at the |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 13 | Carmen 's sister Rachel and her German husband , Eddie Kruger . |
| 14 | During the 1960s these two sea-adventures were republished for young readers in Penguin 's Puffin division ; there was more confidence then than there seems to be in the eighties that the accessibility of Masefield 's story lines and his energetic prose would justify offering to capable readers in the early and mid-teens novels written for adults . |
| 15 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 16 | After a series of meetings on July 15 both the National Front and the Janata Dal rejected Singh 's resignation offer and it was announced that he would reluctantly stay in office . |
| 17 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 18 | It said 56 per cent of those asked believed the president had misled the public during last year 's election campaign when he said he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his programmes . |
| 19 | The transfer of Baker , who in 1988 had resigned as Treasury Secretary in order to take over Bush 's election campaign when it was trailing badly in the polls , had been widely anticipated in the month prior to the announcement . |
| 20 | But then of course the difficulty arises because these are difficult times , there is a recession , people are losing their jobs day by day and we did n't think it was appropriate to start applying some guillotine on people 's election rights and their membership of the committee . |
| 21 | This week 's case in point is the fumble-fisted fiasco over Norman Lamont 's Budget announcement that he would phase in VAT on domestic fuels . |
| 22 | Such was the strength of Japan 's negotiating position that it was only marginally weakened by an attempt on the life of the elder statesman Li Hongzhang , leader of the Chinese delegation . |
| 23 | I wandered round the end of the screen and sweetly asked him if he would like some coffee , and then watched the poor man 's jaw drop and his face go turkey red . |
| 24 | Eddie 's jaw set and her hands gripped the edge of the table . |
| 25 | Lucenzo 's jaw set and his expression became glacial . |
| 26 | Hawkins and Jess took the slave to the one which housed the old pony tack , the moth-eaten horse blankets , the bits and pieces from Mr Jarman 's horse-riding lifetime and his father 's before him . |
| 27 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 28 | Not for nothing did Sue Ellen 's hair flop when she became an alcoholic . |
| 29 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 30 | Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ? |