Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee 's activities culminated in the summoning of a People 's Convention on 12 January 1941 . |
| 2 | But very often the major part of an individual 's activities stem from the duties and reciprocal obligations which fall to him by virtue of his roles as a social person . |
| 3 | Lister 's activities extended into the community . |
| 4 | Pomgol 's activities extended to the purchase and distribution of foodstuffs , medicine , and other supplies ; help to the starving to get work ; and collecting donations . |
| 5 | A pony 's hooves rattled on the road outside . |
| 6 | Are each relevant year 's accounts covered by the auditing/reporting and dispute resolution process ? |
| 7 | Under the provision of the Companies Act 1989 the Secretary of State has powers to seek a ruling from the courts , under a new civil procedure , on whether a company 's accounts comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 8 | Curwen 's estates lay on the west Cumberland coalfield , and he took a particular interest in the collieries inherited from his father and his second wife , as well as others which he purchased and leased in the area . |
| 9 | It would be interesting to know how Mr Bishko 's shareholders feel about the future . |
| 10 | In one of his letters to Salt Gandhi wrote that he had become a confirmed vegetarian after reading Salt 's essays published under the title The Logic of Vegetarianism ( 1897 ) . |
| 11 | His acute political and personal crisis was increased by a direct attack from Michael Heseltine , who said the Chancellor 's attempts to shrug off the trade deficit smacked of ‘ socialist naivety ’ . |
| 12 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
| 13 | All Claudia 's defences rose to the attack . |
| 14 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 15 | When Carco called to see the paintings Zborowski ran to buy a candle , stuck it into the neck of a bottle , then showed Carco into a narrow , unfurnished room where a stack of Modigliani 's canvases stood in the corner . |
| 16 | The muted colours of Pavlos 's objects derives from the relation of the many cut edges to the printed colours of the paper , which are only visible where it has been spread open . |
| 17 | The fourth of Ashby 's proposals consists of the introduction of special incentives to employers , both in the private and public sector , to take on to their payrolls those who have failed to find work , even though they have done everything asked of them — are actively seeking work , registered for a job , been a member of a Job Club and been on an ET course . |
| 18 | Seldom do so many and varied examples of the mapmaker 's skills appear on the market at the same time . |
| 19 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 20 | Their eyes met and Ruth 's fingers tightened around the stem of her champagne glass — a defensive gesture as always when she caught the eye of a seriously good-looking male . |
| 21 | Richard 's fingers played with the card as he recalled their first meeting , 13 years ago , at Adam 's party . |
| 22 | As Valence obeyed , the paraplegic 's fingers clawed at the air , as though inscribing some complex , arcane pattern . |
| 23 | Caroline 's fingers froze over the typewriter keys . |
| 24 | Terhune 's fingers flew over the keyboard , pulling a close-range weapons menu out of the memory . |
| 25 | Al-Makesh 's fingers curled around the Beretta . |
| 26 | Edward 's fingers drummed on the edge of the desk . |
| 27 | Bernice 's fingers drummed on the plastic of the dashboard . |
| 28 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |
| 29 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Mr Clarke 's opponents returned to the attack . |