Example sentences of "[n mass] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry 's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place . |
| 2 | Crosbie also claims that the end of the harp seal hunt in 1987 , brought about as a result of pressure from some conservationists , has contributed to the cod 's decline as a result of the seals preying on it and on its main food fish , the capelin . |
| 3 | ‘ After Anthony caught the cod he returned to the car park because his car was blocking somebody in , ’ explained a colleague at Sizewell B. ‘ One of his mates then stuffed the watch down the cod 's throat with a stick — I can imagine Anthony 's surprise when he started to fillet the fish back home . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 5 | According to Eric Partridge 's Dictionary of Catch Phrases , the phrase ‘ over the left shoulder ! ’ negates ‘ one 's own or another 's statement and indicates derisive disbelief , the thumb being sometimes pointed over that shoulder … |
| 6 | There is also a further £100 million provision covering losses on Heron 's stake in Control Securities , now suspended , and the cost of selling properties , legal fees and tax liabilities . |
| 7 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 8 | A night fighting variant , the Firefly NF.II , was developed in which an 18° extension was incorporated aft of the engine firewall to compensate for an alteration in the aircraft 's centre of gravity . |
| 9 | Using this information it is possible to make a plot of the aircraft 's track over the ground when the necessary calibration and other corrections are made and allowance is made for the effect of wind on the flight path . |
| 10 | Mm quite a few bob 's worth of booze there . |
| 11 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 12 | Thus what the emerging national data seem to confirm is the Leeds data 's sense of a pervasive incongruence in classroom strategies between pedagogic style and mode of organization . |
| 13 | Conner Peripherals Inc has now finalised the deal under which Overland Data Inc takes over all manufacturing , marketing and engineering rights to the Cipher 995 9-track and T480 18-track tape drive product lines , as well as all Cipher brand and trademark rights ; the acquisition will immediately double Overland Data 's turnover to a figure running at $24m a year . |
| 14 | Li Yuan 's look of surprise as the Arab reared brought gasps as well as laughter from all round . |
| 15 | This was why he had come : to hear Li Yuan 's proposal in detail . |
| 16 | For the most part , black parents are not interested in their offspring 's development in sport and are sometimes oblivious to the fact that they are involved in sport at all . |
| 17 | Now , you can see that in the ma mammal where this happens , there could be a very clear contrary as says , between the mother 's desire to start another offspring towards the end of the period of , of breast feeding , and the offspring 's interest in having some more milk and postponing the birth of the sibling . |
| 18 | Erm , th that 's easy , it does n't expend any , any energy and er , from the offspring 's point of view that 's worth facing . |
| 19 | We 've described it from the offspring 's point of view . |
| 20 | After beating him , they ransacked the house , but could only find £10 's worth of coins . |
| 21 | David Mach 's exhibition chez Nikki Diana Marquardt has been extended ; the Scottish artist is also exhibiting with Claire Burrus . |
| 22 | Dorset gentry were irritated at Dorchester folk 's disregard of their social superiors ; national politics brought disaster . |
| 23 | Dulé waved to his group of survivors : they would attack one of the cannon 's crew from the rear ; no fire until they were upon them . |
| 24 | For anyone who could be bothered to look and listen , Moose 's potential for pulling off something as weirdly , almost classically beautiful as this has always been there . |
| 25 | Crossed his eyes and exploded Old Buck 's head in some quarrel over a high yaller lady , then hit the trail in Buck 's G-Mek convertible . ’ |
| 26 | In other corners and other rooms , dozens of other topics floated gaily on the lively , slightly choppy waters , their pennants bobbing and fluttering in the end-of-year , the terminal breeze : the approaching steel strike , the brave new era of threatened privatization , the abuse of North Sea oil resources , the situation in Afghanistan , the Annan report , the prospect of a fourth television channel , the viability of Charles 's attempt to conquer the United States , the Cambridge Apostles , the disarray of the Labour Party , the deplorable vogue for Buck 's Fizz as a party drink , the Yorkshire Ripper , the Harrow Road murderer , the Prince of Wales . |
| 27 | Turn it into Buck 's Fizz with the addition of chilled orange juice , or try a glass of Crémant de Bourgogne Rosé , Caves de Bailly 1988 ( £6.99 ) from Majestic . |
| 28 | I never got to hear Arthur Calder-Marshall talking about Patrick Hamilton , but just a few days later I was able to read Patrick Hamilton about Arthur Calder-Marshall , in a letter to Hamilton 's brother in 1951 about a radio talk Calder-Marshall had given : ‘ Arthur C-M 's description of me as he first knew me ( at the Wells Hotel , Hampstead ) makes very amusing reading . |
| 29 | The clarinet lay dusty on a shelf beside a Lamb 's Tales from Shakespeare , a sheep 's jaw from which she had meant to begin a study of anatomy , and a rough tangle of embroidery wools with which she had resolved to emulate Penelope , stitching and stitching as if her life and virtue depended upon it . |
| 30 | I mean Halloween is it 's a pagan ritual it 's there to worship the devil it 's the most poignant date in the calendar if you want to get into black magic if you want to dance naked round er a sheep 's heart with sticks stuck through it . |