Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shielding protects you — though you still need to do some fancy flying to stay stable within the radioactive thermals — then as the cloud dissipates you cut out and down , across the mountains — they look tiny ! — swoop across the closed valley , loose the missile when the base 's defence radar picks you up and use the last of your fuel to escape over the far side while the missile takes out the base . |
| 2 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 3 | A day 's yacht charter took us threading through the islands — the most beautiful of all named , in a moment of sheer inspiration , ‘ Mosquito Island ’ to keep unwanted visitors away . |
| 4 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 5 | AS the row over Labour 's election broadcast grew it was revealed grandparents of a four-year-old boy paid out £300 for a private ear operation to avoid a six-months wait on the health service . |
| 6 | Mr Clinton claims new , higher estimates of the US government 's budget deficit forced him to sharply revise his election platform . |
| 7 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 8 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 9 | Ironically , Bourdieu 's action theory means we human scientists are more constrained by structures than in Lévi-Strauss 's or Althusser 's structuralism . |
| 10 | Sadly , the convict 's transportation ship bore him to Botany Bay before a cure could be confirmed . |
| 11 | Any more at one hundred and ten only , one twenty , one thirty one forty , fifty one sixty , seventy one seventy one eighty , the lady 's bid sir do you want to come in ? |
| 12 | I was anxious right up until the end , but Speed 's killer goal sealed it ; the crowd went wild . |
| 13 | Well last night only three days after the shadow cabinet elections one of the women MPs who was thrown off John Smith 's core team accused her male parliamentary colleagues of a cynical plot and a stitch-up . |
| 14 | THE WESTON 'S ESCAPE ROUTE TAKES THEM TO ANTWERP BY WAY OF MARGATE , HERE IN 1781 . |
| 15 | Maybe Dundee will be interested in players here , or I might have to break the club 's transfer record to get him . ’ |
| 16 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 17 | Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 18 | By ‘ officially ’ I mean that the computer 's operating system tells me that there are just three files . |
| 19 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 20 | Swindon 's Conservative MP says he 's feeling got a because planners on the local council have discovered his new garden fence does n't have planning permission . |
| 21 | FAIR WEATHER ON THE FAIRWAYS Do n't let Britain 's winter climate deprive you of the game . |
| 22 | The head of Whitby 's cargo trade says he is hopeful new business can be attracted to the port , following the collapse of the weekly service from Norway . |
| 23 | If you would like further copies of the Region 's Council Tax notes I can make these readily available and I would also be prepared to comment on any draft training document you produce . |
| 24 | With a peremptory jerk of her head , and a wordless signal of command , Rainbow 's dancing partner orders me out of my subject and into the nearest dark comer . |
| 25 | The Puerto Rican 's work rate kept him well in contention until that crucial ninth , when McKenzie had to call on all his experience and determination to get through it . |
| 26 | Equestrianism : Whitaker 's wonder horse wraps it up |
| 27 | The collapse of robert Maxwell 's business empire left him with no income for 5 months , forcing him and his family into crisis . |
| 28 | The volley gun 's move rate assumes it has a full crew — if crew are slain then its movement is reduced proportionally . |
| 29 | The bouncers at Lord Tom 's disco bar maintain they have little trouble . |
| 30 | And for heaven 's sake stop calling me Miss Chester . |