Example sentences of "and [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure of their places , however , both may have to improve on their form of last year , Lynch averaging only 21 in 10 matches and Medlycott 's 38 wickets costing 41 . |
| 2 | Victoria was a great , heavy lump of a child and Melanie 's arms cracked under the weight of her . |
| 3 | And Melanie 's laughter trickled to nothing when she saw his pale , bony face half-hidden by hair and could see nothing there , no hint of a smile or inflection of tenderness which might mean she would be spared . |
| 4 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 5 | But I I need to you see I need some buttons for Beverley and Melanie 's cardigans . |
| 6 | And Melanie 's laugh ! |
| 7 | Having made up his mind to talk , he spoke rapidly and fluently and Pascoe 's pen flew over the paper as he took shorthand notes . |
| 8 | Davies was also skilled at constructing local earthworks to prevent flooding by the Severn and his earned him his first big contract from the Montgomeryshire Public Works Engineer , Thomas Penson ( presumably the same Penson of Oswestry who worked with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and was responsible for the design of stations including the recently refurbished Gobowen station and Shrewsbury 's joint station ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I have written it using medical terms and layman 's terms in brackets so people will be able to understand it . |
| 10 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 11 | The Palin charm and good humour wash off without leaving any residue for all the 30,000 miles on the clock , and all the pounds on the budget , and Passepartout 's diligent camera , and Roger Mills 's direction . |
| 12 | What The Mock Turtles do is so embarrassingly simple that it 's easy to trip yourself up describing it — they make pop records , in the same way that The Beatles , The Byrds , The Kinds and Syd 's Pink Floyd made pop records ; with the guitars well upstage and choruses forged in heaven . |
| 13 | For the moment , however , Solidarity and Czechoslovakia 's Civic Forum continue to enjoy huge credit . |
| 14 | Hebert 's and Wainwright 's articles are encouraging because they begin to deal with their critical objects as a point of intervention within a political debate . |
| 15 | One could argue , for example , that the truculent empiricism of the historian Geoffrey Elton ( born in Prague in 1921 ; and Ben 's uncle ) warped the growth of his subject in Britain . |
| 16 | But the sound she now made in her throat brought both Aggie and Ben 's eyes on her , and as she turned and fled from the room and Ben made to go after her , Aggie 's voice halted him , saying firmly , ‘ Leave her be ! |
| 17 | Before either could speak again , the door at the far end of the room opened and Ben 's mother entered , carrying a tray . |
| 18 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |
| 19 | Most er , mostly Bill and Ben 's . |
| 20 | Their real problem — and Beatrice 's — is that Ellen Ash is dull . |
| 21 | Progress was accelerated , however , by the combination of diplomatic pressures ( involving among others Zimbabwe 's President Mugabe and Botswana 's President Masire , a visit to the USA by Chissano in early July ) and the continuing drought . |
| 22 | Hence ‘ Libretto ’ includes recordings not available elsewhere such as fauré 's Pénélope , Dukas 's Ariane et Barbe-Bleue and Chausson 's Le Roi Arthus , together with the more familiar Rossini Italian Girl in Algiers , Purcell 's Dido et Aeneas , Debussy 's Pélléas Mélisande , Offenbach 's La Périchole , Gounod 's Faust and from the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner , handel 's Tamerlano . |
| 23 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 24 | The waste disposal sites are : — Cowpen , Billingham , and Wilton 's landscaping mounds — for inert industrial , dry factory , construction and demolition waste . |
| 25 | Yet the presentation of the book , and Lowry 's text , often speak of a fascination with the Princess that is more than simply the fascination one can derive from the exercise of deconstructing an image . |
| 26 | And Glentoran 's win at Larne put the final nail in their faint qualifying hopes . |
| 27 | After that comes the divine response , but this time not before the people reject Joshua 's and Caleb 's assurances , and threaten to stone them . |
| 28 | Favourite haunts include Rainbow 's , the Black and White bar and Babylon 's , to name just a few . |
| 29 | She scrambled to her feet , clutching at Adam 's arm , and Fincara 's Women advanced in a semicircle , the mist rolling with them . |
| 30 | And Fincara 's voice was going on , clear and murmurous . |