Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 2 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 3 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 4 | Still , Huy had answered Surere 's summons , had even given in to the messenger 's insistence that they travel in the closed rickshaw , so that he would not be able to tell where they were going . |
| 5 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 6 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 7 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 8 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 9 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 10 | Eddie McNally has won through in the men 's singles Section A with wins over G Byrne 21–15 and Richard Neilson whom he beat 21–14 to face the experienced Tommy Hopper . |
| 11 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
| 12 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 13 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 14 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 15 | And the chairman was won over by the manager 's charm , powerful persuasiveness and dynamism . |
| 16 | Much of the controversy is actually mixed up with the nation 's political history . |
| 17 | Due to the extensive television coverage practically every hole on the course , and certainly all those on the second nine , can be conjured up in the mind 's eye , even when the tournament is long over . |
| 18 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 19 | In newborn babies , the infection is usually picked up from the mother 's vagina during birth . |
| 20 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 21 | This can result in errors which can be costly if not picked up by the tenant 's solicitor . |
| 22 | Carried up to the Governor 's House , in much physical pain , his mental pain proved to be more dire . |
| 23 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 24 | Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s . |
| 25 | Standing beside Josh in the wings , she was barely aware of the play being acted out just a few feet away , too caught up in the playwright 's words to be aware of anything else . |
| 26 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 27 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 28 | One year , I remember , he gave us half an hour on John McEnroe being slung out of the Men 's Singles . |
| 29 | Little hard news has come out of the world 's biggest advertising group since it put the division on the block . |
| 30 | If any good has come out of the Mandy 's story , it is the barrage of publicity it has provided on under-age sex . |