Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially all Gehlen 's funding came from the CIA but later , in 1954 when the German Federal Republic was established as a sovereign state , Gehlen took over the running of the Federal German Intelligence Service . |
| 2 | Twenty years ago more than three quarters of the College 's income came in the form of a government grant . |
| 3 | In 1991 , only 50 per cent of the SCO 's income came from the box office , compared to an average of 69 per cent . |
| 4 | Olivetti 's decision comes despite the fact that it is the controlling shareholder in Acorn Computer Group Plc , originator of the ARM RISC now owned by its Advanced RISC Machines affiliate . |
| 5 | Haughey 's resignation came after the speaker of the Senate and former Justice Minister , Sean Doherty , revealed that Haughey had been fully informed of the tapping of two journalists ' telephones by police in 1982 in an effort to trace Cabinet leaks . |
| 6 | Kelly 's mum came to the school and took her away . |
| 7 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 8 | I make no apology for repeating the fact that a farmer 's living comes from the soil and the crops and livestock that grow on it ; and not from buildings , machinery , and equipment . |
| 9 | Ohm 's Law comes to the rescue and we obtain a value of 0.4V/186µA or 2.15k . |
| 10 | Only 1% of the world 's HEU comes under the safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency ; that is mostly used to power small research reactors in countries that have no nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | An officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard came into the street . |
| 12 | At once the officers of the Kha-Khan 's guard came through the ranks of the troopers to Artai 's side . |
| 13 | It is for similar reasons that I have included the notes from a lecture by Dr. S.P. Dey — the feeling of certainty that LM potencies are an indispensable part of the homœopath 's armoury comes from the authority of his many years in practice . |
| 14 | The Gartner Group 's bandwagon came to the UK recently , where it used a conference in London — Open Systems : A Mix of Myth and Reality — for the launch of its latest consultancy package , the Open Systems Service . |
| 15 | The agent 's percentage comes from the band 's gross earnings at gigs . |
| 16 | Cascarino 's decider came with the game heading for a shoot-out . |
| 17 | Ferranti 's move came in the wake of complaints about a market turndown from rivals such as Racal and Thomson CSF — the French group which may bid for Ferranti with British Aerospace . |
| 18 | Macbean 's move comes as the deadline for the second of the quarterly awards draws near . |
| 19 | Yesterday 's accident came on the day The Northern Echo featured the growing dangers on the road which links County Durham and Cumbria . |
| 20 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |
| 21 | Ninety per cent of his party 's cash comes from the unions , which will expect a return . |
| 22 | Today 's announcement comes at the end of what had been a successful decade for the Trust . |
| 23 | The contenders for a tribe 's leadership come from the group of especially large Orcs known as Big'uns — the closest that Orcs get to a ruling class . |
| 24 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's name coming to the forefront of the picture so unexpectedly made it worth looking more closely at him — in the past as well as the present . |
| 25 | When my master 's wife came into the room some time later , I showed her how I had killed the rat . |
| 26 | My drink came , and a girl 's head came through the plastic curtains and shouted , ‘ Nineteen jay ’ to one of the girls at the juke-box . |
| 27 | Ma 's head comes through the hatch and says , ‘ Mary ! |
| 28 | For those who wished to make their own coffin clothes the 1838 Workwoman 's Guide came to the rescue : |
| 29 | Robert 's father came from the Williams family of Herringstone , near Dorchester , and was disinherited for marrying beneath him . |
| 30 | The final nail in Laker 's coffin came in the winter of 1981 when the big transatlantic carriers , including British Airways , cut their fares to match Laker 's . |