Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose . |
| 2 | FACTORY workers fed-up with secretary Carolyn Bullock 's dodgy parking hoisted her car on to the firm 's roof with a crane . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hardest part about expanding will be finding pub stock up to the Nicholson 's standards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Suddenly he reached across and snatched the photograph out of the Woman 's hand , ripping it in half and dropping the pieces on the floor . |
| 15 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 16 | Even if Mr Takeshita drives the budget through in the opposition 's absence , he will still need time for some further bills . |
| 17 | When piling the buttercream on to the teddy 's body , try to mound it up quite high to give him a tubby appearance . |
| 18 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 19 | The appalled producer took refuge in the unions and his insurance company , and Fred and Arthur composed their faces into the necessary combination of artistic bloody-mindedness and guestly sympathy to scotch the project without actually seeming to throw their good lunch back into the producer 's face . |
| 20 | He woke First Man and made him eat , too and ‘ Adam ’ threw the apple core out over the crowd 's heads . |
| 21 | There were a few people about now : walking their dogs , jogging in tracksuits along the firm sand out by the water 's edge . |
| 22 | In Clouden snatching a basket out of the victim 's hands was robbery . |
| 23 | The problem is that whatever I consume greenly or ungreenly constitutes a bite out of the earth 's resources . |
| 24 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 star Luke Perry had to throw a girl out of the men 's room at a Hollywood pizzeria after she followed him to ask for his autograph . |
| 25 | Next I am not satisfied that the carrying out of the registrar 's order , though extensive and highly inconvenient for the appellants , will create such a precedent that a flood of such orders will follow which would disrupt the business of major auditing firms in the City who carry out these administrations . |
| 26 | 3.8.2 be answerable for and indemnify the Landlord against all actions costs claims demands and liability whatever in relation to any failure by the Tenant to comply with [ its ] obligations under clause 3.7.3 or in relation to any claim made by any adjoining owner or occupier or member of the public or other person in connection with the carrying out of the Tenant 's Works |
| 27 | It is not too much to say that this interpretation of what appears the plain meaning of section 4 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , would make a farce out of the children 's hearing system . |
| 28 | No matter what fancy algorithms or search mechanisms are introduced , the principle remains the same : retrieval is reduced to term matching and the system becomes mealy a super matching machine out of the user 's control . |
| 29 | Marshes play an important part in keeping sediment out of the bay 's waters . |
| 30 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |