Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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31 Unfavourable reaction to the Commission 's Report led to the first ever national conference in Great Britain of Adult Deaf and Dumb Missions and Associations , which at that time numbered upwards of thirty-six .
32 Roberto 's shot came at the 16th .
33 The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit .
34 The all-women crew on the British 58-footer , Maiden , skippered by Tracy Edwards , has now slipped to 70 miles behind Rucanor , but is expected to lead in Friday 's trio followed by the second cruiser , With Integrity , the old GBII , and the West German yacht , Schlussel von Bremen .
35 Wattana 's century followed in the tenth frame but he was able to win only one more as Hendry well and truly took control .
36 Leapor 's reputation subsided in the nineteenth century , but she was noticed occasionally .
37 United 's goal came in the first half … top marks for winger Max Nicholson … he kept control … kept his head and then smashed it home … low and hard …
38 Abolitionists thus presented themselves to the world and to each other as part of a continuous progress despite the significant disjunctures in the movement 's history discussed in the last chapter ( pp.65–6 ) .
39 The tackle that ended McManaman 's threat came in the 104th minute .
40 Lendl , who won his third successive Open title in 1987 , retired against Australian qualifier Neil Borwick while trailing 4-6 6-4 3-1 and became the record fifth men 's seed to lose in the first round this year .
41 The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice .
42 Last night , members of Pringle 's family spoke for the first time about police handling of the siege .
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