Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Democrats in Congress gave support to the President 's decision to launch the biggest US military operation since the Vietnam War , Russia expressed ‘ deep concern ’ for what it dubbed gunboat diplomacy which violated the UN Charter . |
| 2 | An overriding concern was to find a source of arms supplies to equip the Rebel Army and the people 's militia to fight the anticipated US invasion . |
| 3 | The airline sells T-shirts , teddy-bears and a series of children 's books featuring the intrepid Joey , flown by the aptly-named Captain Keen . |
| 4 | Birmingham , needing a point from their final group match , scrambled a 3-3 draw , but not before Blues boss Cooper had grabbed the ball on the touchline from striker Devon White as Cambridge 's tactics angered the former England star . |
| 5 | At Deirdre 's elbow stood the faithless Jonathan Headleand , who was trying to explain to his stepmother 's first husband Edgar why he 'd decided , after all his protests , to follow in his father 's footsteps , while simultaneously trying to keep one eye on Deirdre ( for whom he felt responsible ) and the other on his girlfriend Kate Williams who was being harangued by a Tory backbencher about Marxist infiltration of the Open University . |
| 6 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 7 | Mr Habibullah is still missing , the matter has now gone to the Lahore High Court , and the assembly 's fate will be decided when Mr Sharif 's friends produce the unfortunate Mr Habibullah next week . |
| 8 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
| 9 | Roger Davis 's quest to find the perfect Alice to photograph wo n't end when the exhibition closes at the end of February . |
| 10 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |