Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to get them , Midland 's board has put a price on its business , and is left with no defence against a bidder prepared to offer more . |
| 2 | If the husband 's shirt has lost a button , he says , ’ Mary , Mary , why is my shirt without a button ’ , to the Black ’ girl ’ not to his wife . |
| 3 | Where the defendant 's negligence has placed a person in danger and the plaintiff has attempted a rescue , the court will be slow to find the rescuer contributorily negligent . |
| 4 | A MYSTERY Santa 's honesty has saved a pensioner 's holiday of a lifetime . |
| 5 | * The ( US ) Chemical Manufacturer 's Association has published a survey claiming that the release of toxic pollutants to the environment from the chemical industry was reduced by 35 per cent in the four-year period ending 1990 . |
| 6 | The Lord Chancellor 's Department has produced a consultation paper proposing a new estate in land — commonhold — following a preliminary study of " condominium' legislation in other parts of the world . |
| 7 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 8 | Is it ‘ My Dad 's Thribbler Has Got A Puncture ’ ? |
| 9 | The borough 's team hopes to maximise a mother 's chances of continuing to care for her children by providing independent counselling and advocacy to help her survive the investigation intact . |
| 10 | Barker 's drama does deliver a message even simpler than his point about the importance of the national soul . |
| 11 | Unfortunately Ken 's recovery has suffered a setback after seeing us still in the title race with only fourteen-sixteenths of the season remaining . |
| 12 | My dad 's friend 's had a heart attack so he thinks he 's going to have one too . |
| 13 | An airman 's wife has told a jury how her husband told her he started a fire which caused nineteen million pounds damage to an airbase . |
| 14 | Girolamo Cavazzoni 's arrangement of Passereau 's well-known chanson Il est bel e bon ( track 8 ) and his father Marcantonio 's Madame vous avez ( track 11 ) contrast sharply with the same composer 's freely composed Recercare primo ( track 6 ) , in which Marshall draws the instrument 's ripieno stops to create a sound of impressive brilliance . |
| 15 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 16 | The contemporary women 's movement has constructed a list of seven demands : |
| 17 | Because of his success in Hollywood , Korngold 's music seems to breed a sense of unease among the musically established . |
| 18 | But he did not : the man 's life has become a fable of great imagination and his prowess as a winemaker has assumed almost mythical proportions . |
| 19 | ‘ Mark 's ma has got a livery stable — she 's a real leathery Jane . |
| 20 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 21 | The school 's headmaster has made a complaint about the use of the photograph to Mr Bates ' campaign office . |
| 22 | Mr Murrell 's approach aims to combine a series of investments within a school fees portfolio . |
| 23 | Some successful initiatives have happened — for example , Guy 's Hospital has employed a nurse practitioner at night to supervise giving intravenous drugs and filter calls to junior staff . |
| 24 | There are still comparatively few coherent introductions to the " new " stylistics — that is , discourse stylistics , and Lee 's book aims to fill a gap . |
| 25 | A male Couch 's spadefoot calls to attract a female to the pond . |
| 26 | Freeman 's account seems to have a number of unfortunate consequences . |
| 27 | Also locked , but the ship 's company has volunteered a day 's work tomorrow , so some , including the ship 's doctor , must see inside tonight . |
| 28 | Joyce 's material supposedly unfolds in the dreaming mind of a Dublin publican ; the story O'Brien 's narrator tells concerns a publican who operates his imagination altogether more systematically , locking up his fictional characters ‘ so that he can keep an eye on them and see that there is no boozing ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 35 ) . |
| 29 | But her dad 's got well Stu 's dad 's got a Sierra ai n't he ? |
| 30 | Colin 's dad 's got a boat . |