Example sentences of "'s [noun] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In a statement on July 15 Shamir 's office said that Israel would take a " positive view " of Assad 's reply if it enabled Israel to conduct " direct and unmediated negotiations with Syria " .
2 NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m .
3 " Even if you have a copy of the old ( September 1988 ) Catalogue , have a look at this year 's edition as it contains details of 15 new titles and information on many more books , packs , videos and projects .
4 ‘ If he is dead , and she dies too , that letter 's evidence whether it makes sense or not .
5 Carlton was undeterred by HTV 's news as it jumped 6p to 754p .
6 He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home .
7 The bank manager may want to reduce the business 's overdraft if it assigns security over its debtors to a factor ; and the factor 's fee may be too costly for businesses that work on very fine margins .
8 He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents .
9 And then Peters sank his own hideously transformed jaws into the thing 's arm as it lifted Cardiff .
10 Hanson yesterday began the break-up of the Consolidated Gold Field 's empire when it sold ARC Construction to its management for £6.3million .
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