Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name change , Avalon says , represents the company 's decision to reposition itself in the client/server market . |
| 2 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 3 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 4 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 5 | High quality opportunism like that is what Tranmere paid Everton £300,000 for but , until he scored , the travelling fans were entitled to question Nevin 's eagerness to involve himself in the game . |
| 6 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 7 | Seasons : At an altitude of 2,475′ ( 750m ) , this mountain crag faces NE and gets morning sunshine , with the top third of Titan 's Wall receiving it in the evening . |
| 8 | Even , however , if it was rightly decided , it is remote from the present issue , since it proceeded on the basis that the giving of surety for a defendant 's bail created something in the nature of a civil debt . |
| 9 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
| 10 | Mrs Knight said Bruce 's daughter joined him in the house and cleared out a bureau which she had in the bedroom . |
| 11 | Leicester have won just one of their 11 Carlsberg League games this season , but the club suggested that the reason for the dismissal was Johnson 's unwillingness to involve himself in the club 's junior programme . |
| 12 | Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States . |
| 13 | TONY WILSON 's win over Steve McCarthy in the British light-heavyweight title eliminator at Southampton last month , when McCarthy refused to continue after Wilson 's mother attacked him in the ring , has been officially ratified by the British Board of Control . |
| 14 | From the right-hand page Vron 's face stared me in the eye . |
| 15 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 16 | Bernice 's summons halted him in the doorway . |