Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Minister 's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen . |
2 | The Government 's response was to set up a committee chaired by a judge ( Mrs. Justice Heilbron ) to look into the matter . |
3 | BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress . |
4 | And the other thing is that the second year 's payment is taken out a year 's later through the same banker 's order . |
5 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
6 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |
7 | The famine simply must end today if Koppelaar 's team are to hold down a crucial fourth slot in Pool A which would keep alive their chances of reaching hockey 's premier event for only the third time . |
8 | Counsel 's aim is to break down the alibi by asking unexpected questions and so getting contradictory answers from the two defendants . |
9 | Leslie 's body was fighting off an infection known as toxoplasmosis . |
10 | HARRODS is the least practical shop in the world , and this spring the top people 's store is laying out the trading mats with élan . |
11 | Mr Bean 's mate was bringing out an extraordinary white horse covered in black spots . |
12 | The child 's problem is to figure out the precise way in which the conceptual categories established during the sensori-motor stage map on to the semantic categories which are expressed in adult speech ( Edwards 1973 ) . |
13 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |