Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 2 | She has this allergy to cow 's milk and what have you . |
| 3 | Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area . |
| 4 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 5 | ’ unless such allegations go to a matter in issue ( including the credibility of the witness ) which is material to his lay client 's case and which appear to him to be supported by reasonable grounds . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Beyond the Family Album ’ , which Jo showed at the Hayward alongside the elegant landscapes of Thomas Cooper and the ironic social documentary of Martin Parr , was a turning point in women 's photography and everyone took notice . |
| 7 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 8 | A second swarm of enemies attacked Arthur 's skin and he swore at them blue murder . |
| 9 | These had deeds of Herakles and Theseus , and an Amazonomachy , presumably that at Themiscyra , the city of the Amazons , where Theseus accompanied Herakles on his quest for Hippolyta 's girdle and himself brought back an Amazon bride , Antiope . |
| 10 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 11 | Before the brandy came a familiar American voice penetrated Julia 's tiredness and she sat up straighter . |
| 12 | John , her brother aged 6 years , was mother 's favourite and she had become concerned that her husband was undermining her authority with Jenny during the day when she was at home with her . |
| 13 | It was Minton , not Vaughan , who had become John Lehmann 's favourite and who did six vignettes for the dustjackets of his Chiltern Library classics . |
| 14 | This is Bennett 's story and it makes for fascinating reading . |
| 15 | Someone walked over Preston 's grave and he shuddered . |
| 16 | A lot of talking has been coming from Eubank 's camp and I 've kept quiet , but now it 's my turn . |
| 17 | Turning to what she called ‘ the heart of the matter ’ , the Prime Minister said : ‘ Remove man 's freedom and you dwarf the individual , you devalue his conscience and you demoralise him . ’ |
| 18 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 19 | Well , they had penetrated Atholl 's bastion and he had had to meet ‘ his ’ people man to man , and man to woman , on a level , with no intermediary . |
| 20 | Momentarily the pounding eased in Christie 's chest and he struggled to find the courage to speak . |
| 21 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 22 | The curtains were drawn over the windows looking towards Regent 's Park and he had n't turned on the light . |
| 23 | And I think it does work nicely because it , th most of the frame is filled with the girl 's hair and she 's got nice blonde hair , nicely lit , that erm is a good way of showing off her head . |
| 24 | ‘ I have played against them twice in the President 's Trophy and they beat us twice fairly and squarely . |
| 25 | Erm I think that in in broad terms that covers the architectural aspects we we have of course , as er , Paul mentioned at the beginning erm talked the these designs through with the Clark Hill , Honey Hill and Fern Hill Resident 's Association and they have erm been , been shown the exhibition on the estate and er we believe that they 've been well received towards seeing what |
| 26 | I think it was all in Kenneth 's mind and I think Kenneth 's hang-up about his backside and his obsession with cleanliness would have made physical love very difficult for him . ’ |
| 27 | Yes , I think they get treated rather tough do n't they , I think the batsmen take advantage of the , of the always be in the umpire 's mind and he 's got to be certain . |
| 28 | Cotterell looked up blankly for a moment , and then Carson and his wallet slid into a niche in the young man 's mind and he smiled . |
| 29 | This was n't his first encounter with Stephen 's rival and he knew the woman seated on the other side of the high table was a formidable opponent , probably more dangerous than the King , and possessing in full measure the strong will and harsh determination that had characterised her father and grandfather . |
| 30 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |