Example sentences of "'s [adj -est] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin 's greatest achievement came in West Indies ' second innings . |
| 2 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S worst motorist appeared in court yesterday charged with drink-driving — for the 14th time . |
| 4 | THE COCKNEY Rejects were Morrissey 's worst nightmare brought to life . |
| 5 | THE COCKNEY Rejects were Morrissey 's worst nightmare brought to life . |
| 6 | Europe 's boldest festival offered to enlightenment . |
| 7 | In 1885 London 's earliest snow fell on September 25th . |
| 8 | A Cotswold hotel for goats and the World 's biggest pancake made in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | In the years that followed , Mary 's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field . |
| 10 | White and a graduate student , Gen Suwa , amalgamated the talus ( ankle ) , metatarsal heads , and calcaneus ( heel ) of a 1–8 million-year-old foot from Homo habitis at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania — Lucy 's closest relative according to White — with large phalanges ( toes ) from Hadar , and the toe extremities of a chimpanzee . |
| 11 | McGrath 's best work came from body punches , but they were few in number and he was heavily out-scored by Oakes , whose work was far more varied . |
| 12 | Derby 's best chance fell to Mick Forsyth after a mistake by Dave Holdsworth , but Watford goalkeeper Perry Suckling made a great save . |
| 13 | Liverpool 's best chance fell to Michael Thomas after 47 minutes , but his close range shot was deflected agonisingly wide . |
| 14 | It was a dull second half by comparison ; Oxford 's best chance falling to John Durnin . |
| 15 | And when at rest , does man 's best friend lie in contemplation of his next act , or of the possible menus for his next meal ? |
| 16 | Prize winner for this month 's BEST LETTER goes to Robert Watson 's ‘ TV DISCOURTESY ’ ( see below ) ; why are music lovers , hooked by anonymous music accompanying a TV programme or film , kept in the dark ? |
| 17 | Indeed , Apple have just launched a new , low-cost PostScript printer which uses Adobe 's latest software based on ATM and there are indications that Adobe has written the routines that will allow TrueType fonts to be imaged on PostScript printers . |
| 18 | Hull Truck Theatre Company 's latest show opens at Oxford 's Apollo Theatre tonight ; it runs for a week . |