Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’
2 After some prompting , the defendant gave the police his name and address , and then at his mother 's prompting began to leave the scene , using foul language as he went .
3 John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management .
4 Special considerations : the appellant 's counsel had informed the sentencer that the appellant was prepared to sell his house to raise the funds to pay compensation , and that the house was subject to an offer to purchase which would leave the appellant with an equity of almost £17,000 .
5 He said British Rail 's decision to stop manning the town 's station from 3.15pm every day ignored the needs of disabled travellers .
6 Only bad light and rain , which prevented play in the final session , saved the tourists from total embarrassment after Allan Border 's decision to bat gave the Kiwi bowlers the chance to exploit movement on an Eden Park wicket that looked deceptively flat .
7 Whatever the fate of the Picassos , there can be no doubt that the Minister 's decision has altered the character of Dutch museums fundamentally .
8 However , by February 1991 the idea of bringing the WEU within the EC 's orbit had gained the approval of WEU Secretary-General van Eekelen , and NATO Secretary-General Manfred Wörner ( Germany ) had also welcomed an increased EC involvement .
9 When assessing the plaintiff 's conduct the court will make allowance for the fact that the defendant 's negligence has placed the plaintiff in a dilemma .
10 If there is uncertainty as to whether the defendant 's negligence has caused the damage , it has to be determined what degree of probability of damage occurring has to be established by the plaintiff .
11 Probably — yet , with Vitor 's presence seeming to fill the room , a sense of self-preservation had insisted she erect some barrier between them .
12 Norton 's Coin had won the Cheltenham Gold Cup .
13 All this and David 's Mum having saved the day saying , ‘ Do n't worry , I 've called the press . ’
14 Now Fergie 's mum has entered the fray .
15 Jan 's mum has acquired the status of a legend .
16 Some 200 Azerbaijan Popular Front fighters occupied the Interior Ministry and the television centre after the republic 's parliament refused to endorse the appointment .
17 Mr Fallon said : ‘ I welcome Caldaire 's willingness to move providing the conditions are right . ’
18 The group 's chairman had visited the North in January .
19 Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help .
20 Miranda 's heart had looped the loop as she happily accepted an invitation to lunch at Rules , his favourite restaurant .
21 It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters .
22 The Rambler 's Association has accused the Forestry Commission and the Ordnance Survey of entering into a " secret deal " to exclude details of public access to forest land from the Survey 's maps ( the definitive public maps on sale in Britain ) .
23 Why else should the notion of Frankenstein 's monster have affronted the imagination of generations if it was not their intuition of God that was affronted ?
24 Initially , Moynihan 's intention was to use Minton 's striking looks to counterbalance the interest elsewhere .
25 Following a meeting in early August between Sarney , Ferreira da Nóbrega and John Reed , chairman and chief executive of the US Citibank ( which as Brazil 's largest creditor was owed some $4,000 million ) , Ferreira da Nóbrega confirmed the government 's intention to continue to make the payment of debt interest dependent on the state of reserves , which it wanted to keep at a " safe " level of at least $6,000 million .
26 It is the Company 's intention to continue to regard the AUK Notes as part of its working capital ; they are pledged as collateral for Group borrowings .
27 In March 1943 the Prime Minister broadcast on the theme of a Four Year Plan for peace , and announced the government 's intention to plan to prevent the return of mass unemployment after the war .
28 If Ludo 's club had reached the spieler 's head it would have caved his skull in .
29 Yet , despite the financially less favoured position granted to those areas of the curriculum which are not perceived as ‘ national priorities ’ , every LEA surveyed in the writer 's research had established the arts as a local priority , and assigned funds to support it .
30 Some of the more profound patterns which Dr O'Connor 's research uncovered debunk the myth that savants rely on photographic memories .
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