Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |
| 2 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 3 | The terminology used in mobility training sounds technical , but a trained mobility instructor who has experience in dealing with children or a specialist teacher or adviser trained in mobility and independence skills will be able to plan mobility and orientation activities together with the pupil 's class teacher . |
| 4 | Pontin 's , for the second consecutive year , have agreed to stage and sponsor the championship , assisting the women 's game , which desperately needs the financial input and widespread television coverage enjoyed at present only by the men 's game . |
| 5 | They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose . |
| 6 | Sometimes the root deed itself will refer to the restrictive covenants and sometimes new restrictive covenants will be imposed in this transaction , for example , if it is a sale of part only of the seller 's property . |
| 7 | Using a paint brush paint blue eyes and whiskers on to the rabbit 's face and pink ears and a nose . |
| 8 | The example is the famous case in which a man unintentionally drove his car on to a police-officer 's foot and then declined to remove it , for a minute or two , when asked . |
| 9 | FACTORY workers fed-up with secretary Carolyn Bullock 's dodgy parking hoisted her car on to the firm 's roof with a crane . |
| 10 | Sabine unfastened the chain round her neck , and put the medallion gently into the Baronne 's hand . |
| 11 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 12 | Since the market for this metal is dominated by the automotive industry there was an inevitable decline in price which ended the year at $1,350 per ounce , over 55% down from the year 's high point . |
| 13 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 14 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 15 | The unit 's been threatened with closure together with the hospital 's other acute service including Intensive care , coronary care , and specialist baby care . |
| 16 | Chlorohydra genes and alga genes , beetle genes and bacteria genes , can get into the future only via the host 's eggs . |
| 17 | The report will be sent to the parties together with the minister 's letter of decision , which will set out the factors which have influenced the minister . |
| 18 | This is because each program in the category is content-free , highly versatile , limited in practice only by the user 's imagination . |
| 19 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
| 20 | Too much competition between the two main houses has resulted in the whittling away of the seller 's commission in many transactions and buyers will now be hit in order to restore profit margins . |
| 21 | The check in 18 of his pianos consists of an upright , flat piece of wood hinged with leather to the key just on the player 's side of the hammer . |
| 22 | Yes , I did get the name of the company and the guitar — Washburn Mercury — but once I 'd dragged my eyes away from the damsel 's cleavage , the questions started . |
| 23 | On occasions rural depopulation has aroused considerable public concern and has even been represented as a draining away of the nation 's life-blood , to the detriment of the national character and vigour . |
| 24 | Warrington had some unexpected help in Sierra Leone , when a party of schoolchildren joined him in his ‘ tomorrow , tomorrow ’ speech , reciting the words faultlessly in the Queen 's English . |
| 25 | Subcutaneous injections can be in the scruff of the neck close to the handler 's thumb while holding the mouse firmly on a surface that it can grasp . |
| 26 | Between the evening of Friday 6 March and Sunday 8 March a thief stole a number of Near-Eastern items of the ninth to second centuries BC from the Draper 's Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum . |
| 27 | At present Africa contains only one station that can receive signals directly from the US 's Landsat remote-sensing craft . |
| 28 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 29 | Together they watched the setting up of the town 's first fish and chip shop , they saw the decline of Mr Healy in the hotel and stood side by side on the day that he was taken to the sanatorium . |
| 30 | At nine he was employed by an ironmonger at 2s 6d a week and nine months later as a printer 's devil on the weekly Sunderland Herald at 45 6d . |