Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she could shape a probing question he urged his horse forward and without waiting to be encouraged Rain 's mare sped after it . |
| 2 | The conclusion to Dahl 's study stressed that it was impossible to identify a single powerful elite which dominated policy-making in each of the three areas , as Hunter 's elitist model had suggested . |
| 3 | Luke 's mouth pleasured while it dominated , and his hands roaming insolently about her body were creating havoc , the skilled , confident caresses to which he subjected her a bold proclamation of ownership . |
| 4 | Sefton 's condition deteriorated and it was agreed he should be put down . |
| 5 | However , reports questioning Shah 's independence grew after it emerged that Irfanullah Marwat Khan , implicated in the alleged gang-rape of a close friend of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto [ see p. 38683 ] , had been retained as an adviser to the new provincial government . |
| 6 | The frog 's forehead bulged as it tried to get its mind around a new idea . |
| 7 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 8 | On Jan. 24 President Hosni Mubarak told the People 's Assembly said that it was Saddam Hussein 's " occupation of an independent , sovereign Arab country " which had " caused all that is happening now " . |
| 9 | It struggled on as an ‘ underfinanced , deradicalized hybrid ’ , in Curran and Seaton 's phrase ( 1988 , p. 99 ) , until King 's pledge expired and it was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 1969 . |
| 10 | It was the house where the poor woodcutter lived with Hansel and Gretel and where Red Riding Hood 's grandmother lived and it was also the house of The Seven Dwarfs and The Three Bears and all the rest of them . |
| 11 | Carried by some freak of the acoustics of the place or by the mist , Jotan 's voice said as it seemed to Alexei in his ear , ‘ If you move or call out , I shall kill you . ’ |
| 12 | The only difference was that the consortium 's report said that it would cost another £250 million for subsidence damage . |
| 13 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke 's solicitor said as it was the first time the new offence had been tried under the 1991 Road Traffic Act they would be considering an appeal against sentence . |
| 15 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |