Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 2 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 3 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 4 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 5 | ‘ PDAG passed a motion opposing the Government 's decision to abolish it as a democratic forum involved in education and the transfer its work to Government quangos , ’ said society education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis . |
| 6 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 7 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 8 | The name change , Avalon says , represents the company 's decision to reposition itself in the client/server market . |
| 9 | IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space . |
| 10 | Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth . |
| 11 | Emerson 's story sent everybody into a tailspin [ he says ] , including Mary-Claude 's family in Lebanon . |
| 12 | The sweeper 's story reminded me of a tale told at Ross Carbery , County Cork . |
| 13 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 14 | Robyn 's look left him in no doubt . |
| 15 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 16 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 17 | The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England . |
| 18 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 19 | Miss Fogerty 's heart smote her at the sight of her patient 's distress . |
| 20 | She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum . |
| 21 | United almost contributed to their own downfall , but Blackpool 's finsihing let them off the hook . |
| 22 | Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss . |
| 23 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 24 | [ William Golding , The Inheritors ] It requires careful attention to realize that here we are seeing , through the uncomprehending mind of Lok , a man 's attempt to shoot him with an arrow . |
| 25 | There is a purpose in the negative force 's attempt to use you as a pawn . |
| 26 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 27 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 28 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |
| 29 | Dignan 's attempt to reformulate it in a ‘ progressive ’ way could therefore be seen as partisan , and therefore necessarily outside the ambit of a ‘ rights ’ approach . |
| 30 | Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’ |