Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | FACTORY workers fed-up with secretary Carolyn Bullock 's dodgy parking hoisted her car on to the firm 's roof with a crane . |
| 8 | Sabine unfastened the chain round her neck , and put the medallion gently into the Baronne 's hand . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 12 | The unit 's been threatened with closure together with the hospital 's other acute service including Intensive care , coronary care , and specialist baby care . |
| 13 | Chlorohydra genes and alga genes , beetle genes and bacteria genes , can get into the future only via the host 's eggs . |
| 14 | This is because each program in the category is content-free , highly versatile , limited in practice only by the user 's imagination . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As he reversed , he saw her march confidently into the porter 's office . |
| 23 | The hardest part about expanding will be finding pub stock up to the Nicholson 's standards . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Information said on March 12 that fisheries patrol boats had been instructed to fire on foreign vessels fishing illegally inside the country 's 200-mile exclusive economic zone . |
| 25 | United 's luck changed then as Martin went off with an ankle injury , to be followed a few minutes later by Stoke defender Chris Hemming , a clattering tackle on Derning brought the red card out of the referee 's pocket and boos for Hemming . |
| 26 | The major fear now for the prison 's governor is that a warder could be forced to smuggle a small gun into the prison to carry out an attack against republican remand prisoners in revenge for the deaths of two loyalist prisoners . |
| 27 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 28 | There were fierce fights along the way — particularly in the House of Lords — but the concession on pensions took much of the wind out of the Opposition 's sails . |
| 29 | Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails . |
| 30 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |