Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , in the wake of the civil suit lodged against Santa Cruz president Larry Michels for sexual harassment by three former executive secretaries at the company ( UX No 415 ) , SCO 's board issued the following statement : ‘ We are extremely distressed by the recent allegations made against the company and its president . |
| 2 | News that Sir James Goldsmith and George Soros were speculating on the metal 's rise sparked the recent rally . |
| 3 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
| 4 | The rural life had denied her Jane Sharpe 's fashionable pallor ; instead Lucille 's skin had the healthy bloom of country weather . |
| 5 | Irrespective of size , status or skills everyone was brought down to earth with a splash — the difference was that as Saturday 's play unfolded the seeded sides invariably proved to be the more adept in the art of ‘ aquaplaning ’ . |
| 6 | The NGC spokesman said the council 's decision meant the public inquiry would consider the siting of the substation , a matter originally not on the agenda . |
| 7 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 8 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 9 | The 11th 's badge had the Chinese dragon in outline with a two-part scroll below inscribed : BORDER REGIMENT . |
| 10 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 11 | The formations under Gen Loehr 's command represented the main part of all the German forces remaining in Yugoslavia as the war approached its end . |
| 12 | Faced with a world war on two fronts , Roosevelt 's administration confirmed the fundamental strategy decided upon earlier in 1941 at an Anglo-American military staff conference . |
| 13 | However last year 's figure included the exceptional pension refund of £1.23m . |
| 14 | A mother in Craig and Glendinning 's study described the different standards of dress which she set within her family : |
| 15 | As foreseen by the dark clouds , it began to rain during the afternoon and by the time the headlights of Markby 's car illuminated the front windows of Rose Cottage , it was fairly tipping down . |
| 16 | Theodore 's reply included the following passage : " I had intended , if God so decreed , to conquer the world , and it was my desire to die if my purpose could not be fulfilled . |
| 17 | With low prices being realised and the distinct lack of enthusiasm from the floor , the Onslow 's auction reflected the depressed condition of the market . |
| 18 | She took Meg out into the ward , and to Meg 's humiliation locked the little cubicle before disappearing . |
| 19 | The idea was sound , but events of 14 July made it futile , for Bismarck 's telegram had the desired effect . |
| 20 | In the first half of a concert which spanned the gamut from Expressionism to Impressionism , the hall 's resonance favoured the spare lines of Webern 's Op 6 while proving cruelly analytical in Ravel 's Sheherazade . |
| 21 | Defries 's gaze followed the careering hoverspeeder . |
| 22 | Darren said : ‘ We are both history lovers so enlisting the town crier 's help seemed the ideal way to propose . |
| 23 | Darren said : ‘ We are both history lovers so enlisting the town crier 's help seemed the ideal way to propose . |
| 24 | The League 's attitude reflected the traditional belief that the ordinary citizen need not be affected by war . |
| 25 | Trainer Jeremy Glover landed his biggest win when Rambo 's Hall took the 1989 cavalry charge at Newmarket and his confidence is sky high again . |
| 26 | The girl yawned and rubbed the back of her head just as the wind of Jezrael 's exit ruffled the yellow curls . |
| 27 | Commenting on the Arens statement the Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 22 said that " the PLO 's apparent approval of Cairo 's move made the Egyptian government an unacceptable interlocutor for Tel Aviv " . |
| 28 | Rowntree 's moving account of rural poverty complemented Bowley 's careful statistics , as did several similar painstaking , unsensational accounts of poverty in this period , all remarkably alike in the details of hardship they recounted. from 1909 to 1913 the Fabian Women 's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families in Lambeth , published as Round About a Pound a Week , written by Maud Pember Reeves 's in 1907 At the Works by Lady Florence Bell surveyed the lives and living standards of the people of Middlesbrough . |
| 29 | Last week 's meeting left the crucial question of burden of proof open — a fact which may have shifted the odds in favour of the would-be banners . |
| 30 | His neighbour 's mongrel had the unfortunate habit of strolling next door and urinating in his police dog 's food . |