Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gaoler led them into the porter 's lodge , the fellow bowing and scraping as he recognised Sir John . |
| 2 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 3 | The man peeled off two bank notes from the roll in his pocket and stuffed them into the conductor 's tunic pocket . |
| 4 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 5 | For a sensational week he published a news-sheet which libelled everyone from the governor 's wife to the assistant chaplain , including both together . |
| 6 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 7 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 8 | Without being aware of getting there he found himself outside the printer 's shop . |
| 9 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 10 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 11 | Reverend Wulwick dedicated himself to the children 's needs : |
| 12 | We tried one on a child 's jumper , chest size 66cm ( 26″ ) , using the template for children 5–8 , and this worked out very well . |
| 13 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 14 | As he drew her to the canal 's edge a gondola slid from out of the shadows . |
| 15 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 16 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 17 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 18 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 19 | She pursued him to the porter 's desk . |
| 20 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 21 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 22 | He fetched a soiled length of plough cord which had obviously seen much service and fastened it round the cow 's hock . |
| 23 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |
| 24 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 25 | On the second er the second point to make is that erm on the county council 's end of this equation , er Mr Potter er referred us to the county 's economic development strategy , I think I 've got that latest edition , where he was erm attempting to tell us that the erm county 's economic strategy is to attract inward investment of a small scale type . |
| 26 | A seagull on one of the lifeboats regarded us with a voyeur 's eye . |
| 27 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 28 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 29 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 30 | With all her energy she clenched her fists and drove them between the android 's legs . |