Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took the tapes up to the embassy for analysis , and sure enough , it turned out that Yasser Arafat 's PLO had installed a listening post right next to ours . |
| 2 | President Gorbachev 's visit has promoted a Czech dissident to go on hunger strike . |
| 3 | Conrad Hilton 's vision has inspired a new worldwide company that offers every convenience and luxury imaginable . |
| 4 | By the time he retired in 1977 , ITT 's sales had reached a record $17bn with earnings of an unprecedented $562m . |
| 5 | Scott 's novels had created a view of the remoter British past as a time of high romance and chivalry . |
| 6 | The vast irrigated areas of Mexico 's north-west have produced a highly modernised fruit and vegetable industry . |
| 7 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 8 | Wigner 's friend serves to make a similar point . |
| 9 | Unfortunately Ken 's recovery has suffered a setback after seeing us still in the title race with only fourteen-sixteenths of the season remaining . |
| 10 | Verhoeven 's movie has lit a small bonfire under the gay community in America . |
| 11 | She knew that Richard came from the castle and understood that his family was the family to which all the others deferred , but now instead of intimidating her Richard 's status seemed to impart a sense of protection . |
| 12 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 13 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | Curtis 's hands contrived to suggest a modest sum . |
| 15 | Fakrid 's eyes had turned a livid yellow . |
| 16 | Alf 's voice had dropped a decibel . |
| 17 | Hugh 's plan involved purchasing a heavy duty shredder , a baling press , a fork lift truck and a purpose built Ford lorry — total outlay £61,500 . |
| 18 | Barker 's drama does deliver a message even simpler than his point about the importance of the national soul . |
| 19 | The family has openly admitted that Nigel 's brother does have a criminal record and has been known to use Nigel 's name . |
| 20 | It was almost as if the Biennale 's President wanted to engineer a confrontation between the two most important trends to emerge in post-war Italy . |
| 21 | Much later in the war Stoddard 's factory did have a major fire that destroyed much of what was then called Patrick Bank . |
| 22 | In 1886 the Local Government Board appointed a commission to investigate Louis Pasteur 's claims to have found a cure for rabies . |
| 23 | The impending civil action comes at a time when Saunders ' career has reached a new high with eight goals in 10 matches since moving to Villa . |
| 24 | On May 13 it was reported that Taylor 's forces had received a cargo of military equipment from Libya through the port of Buchanan , and that the rebels were freely using supply routes through Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 25 | One of Psion 's engineers had collected a master copy of a new program . |
| 26 | For the Galileo story it is important to know that over the centuries Aristotle 's philosophy had become a part of Catholic orthodoxy . |
| 27 | McCarthy 's report had proposed a £6.7 million plan for a national daily along the lines of the Sun or the Mail , based in or near London , with a staff of 230 . |
| 28 | Young Moira McReady 's parents have lodged a complaint . ’ |
| 29 | We can now see that Oulton 's art has followed a wilfully individual path , avoiding too close an association with any fashionable cause , and managing to remain relevant in a trecherous time . |
| 30 | After Jennie 's death , William 's life seemed to take a rapid downward course . |