Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [coord] [vb base] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 2 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 3 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 4 | Perhaps he would take her into Tommy 's Bar and buy her a cup of coffee . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you know it 's an offence to lie down on the King 's highway and make yourself a danger to passing traffic ? ’ |
| 6 | You can have the firm 's name and give them a brooch or something . |
| 7 | ‘ Chignell , you will collect Miss O'Brien 's luggage and find her a porter before you do anything else , ’ said the autocrat ; and then the train slowed down . |