Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Claudia 's defences rose to the attack . |
| 2 | Even if Dr Courtney 's case went to the Court of Appeal , it would be unlikely to impose the stiffest jail term of life imprisonment . |
| 3 | Shakespear 's Sister took to the stage to what must be the worst intro tape I 've ever heard . |
| 4 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 5 | Kelly 's mum came to the school and took her away . |
| 6 | Such was the force of the bump that Angel 's horse crashed to the ground , temporarily winded . |
| 7 | Last June 's vote led to the creationof a 17-strong block called the European Right , consisting of members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front from France , the Republicans from West Germany ( led by a former Waffen-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber ) , and a Belgian from the wilder shores of Flemish nationalism . |
| 8 | When the press-box at Winchester Crown Court was commandeered by barristers for one massive conspiracy case in 1974 , the Lord Chancellor 's Department apologised to the NUJ . |
| 9 | ‘ Get Hammond in here , ’ he said , noting the way his assistant 's eyes went to the boy . |
| 10 | Schmidt 's eyes went to the sound . |
| 11 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 12 | Katherine 's eyes flew to the Princesse . |
| 13 | Hattie 's parents came to the concert tonight cos Hattie 's in the choir |
| 14 | Robyn 's gaze fell to the floor . |
| 15 | The man 's gaze went to the screamer , wavered , then returned to Jude . |
| 16 | There was controversy in heat seven when after Bargh and Juul had beaten off the challenge of Dave Cheshire and Odom , Boro 's Australian complained to the referee that a lighting fault had affected his vision . |
| 17 | The Gartner Group 's bandwagon came to the UK recently , where it used a conference in London — Open Systems : A Mix of Myth and Reality — for the launch of its latest consultancy package , the Open Systems Service . |
| 18 | Although much of Japan 's population flocked to the countryside after 1943 , as urban prospects improved many returned to the cities . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , Johnson 's ascendancy led to the search for the ‘ Great White Hope ’ , someone who was capable of wrenching the title from Johnson 's grasp and restoring supremacy to the whites . |
| 20 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |
| 21 | All in all , from the time Kate 's waters broke to the moment Patrick made a full appearance , the labour lasted only one hour , 20 minutes . |
| 22 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 23 | For those who wished to make their own coffin clothes the 1838 Workwoman 's Guide came to the rescue : |
| 24 | Substantiation of Castner 's claim led to the formation in 1887 of the Aluminium Company . |
| 25 | Sir John Simon agreed and Mosley 's squads withdrew to the Embankment , where their leader accused the government of surrendering to ‘ Red violence and Jewish corruption ’ . |
| 26 | That came after Liverpool 's frustration bubbled to the surface when Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to receive a red card in four European Cup Winners Cup matches this season . |
| 27 | This contrast may , of course , reflect to some degree the personal inclinations of the authors : it has been suggested in the previous chapter , for example , that Taskopruzade 's interests tended to the antiquarian , which would make him all the more likely to emphasize the old virtues of piety and learning . |
| 28 | As confirmed on June 7 by the National Assembly , two of the Council 's members belonged to the FSLN and two to the UNO , while one was unaffiliated . |
| 29 | Her laugh showed a stain of fear , and the man whose elbow was lodged in Alan Millet 's rib turned to the girl . |
| 30 | The territorial expansion of Russia during Peter 's reign led to the incorporation of Karelia , Estonia and Latvia . |