Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | S. O. Letterman 's office sends me the announcement made at Cannes of the imminent Franco-American production of the moving story of Claude Cohn-Casson , to be called Masai Dreaming . |
| 2 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 3 | Eva 's parents wrote her the news . |
| 4 | One Friday morning the sergeant in charge of Eva 's brigade gave her the task of cleaning the brass window winders and door handles in the assembly hall . |
| 5 | That night Anthony 's wife sent me the following balm from Chequers : |
| 6 | Sun will claim Dragon 's architecture makes it the most expandable Unix server in the business , capable of piling on memory , I/O , disk and CPUs and clearing up a lot of the bottleneck issues . |
| 7 | Andy Cole 's U-turn gave him the space to shoot high into the net . |
| 8 | Rovers ' victory gave them the Barclays Performance of the Week vote from Graham Taylor 's panel . |
| 9 | The Vicar 's wife gave her the magazine to edit and type up . |
| 10 | Then the cheeky four-year-old showed off by singing her favourite song — the drinker 's ditty Show Me The Way To Go Home . |
| 11 | She saw him stick out his lower lip , a quick glance at Marc 's expression showed her the folly of such a request . |
| 12 | The Labour Party finally conceded defeat on April 25 after Moda'i confirmed on television that he would definitely support Likud , despite Peres 's offer to give him the deputy premiership and the finance portfolio . |
| 13 | A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines , fleeing religious persecution in Germany , and the Whig ministry 's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709 . |
| 14 | That was puzzling Claudia , but a moment 's reflection gave her the answer . |
| 15 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 16 | Taheb 's litter carried them the short distance within the compound to the towering , dark house of the Controller of the Silver Mines . |
| 17 | Pascal 's approach shows us the way : ‘ The hypothesis that the apostles were knaves is quite absurd . |
| 18 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 19 | The king 's favour made him the special target of the reforming Ordainers , who in 1311 called for the exclusion from court of both Henry and Isabella , the resumption of his grants from the king , and the transference of the custody of Man to ‘ a good Englishman ’ ( a phrase which reveals one reason for his unpopularity ) . |
| 20 | Wimbledon 's success won them the Barclays Performance of the Week award . |
| 21 | Mr Portillo 's promotion makes him the youngest Cabinet minister since Dr David Owen was appointed Foreign Secretary under Labour . |
| 22 | Another great spiritual advantage was that the people 's occupation allowed them the opportunity to read good books or to engage in godly conversation whilst they were working away at their looms . |
| 23 | Bowes must have taken Nedham into God 's Gift to show him the place where the accident happened . |
| 24 | ‘ For God 's sake tell me the truth . |
| 25 | Rosmer 's anecdote gives us the measure of the role that Bukharin played , not only in relation to Lenin , but also to the whole Bolshevik Party . |
| 26 | Durrant 's determination won him the ball at the byeline just inside the Marseille penalty area . |
| 27 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 28 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 29 | If CERN 's members give it the go-ahead , it will be ready sooner than the SSC , for which it will be the only competitor . |
| 30 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |