Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] 's [verb] [num] " in BNC.

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1 " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? "
2 John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz .
3 The police have been accused of passing on confidential information about a fourteen-year-old delinquent who 's spending two weeks in Spain at taxpayers ' expense .
4 The police have been accused of passing on confidential information about a fourteen-year-old delinquent who 's spending two weeks in Spain at taxpayers ' expense .
5 In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards .
6 In recent years she 's suffered two heart attacks and been treated for cancer and she says she ca n't stand much more of the strain .
7 A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks .
8 The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , says everything possible is being done for a twenty eight year old man who 's spent thirteen months in an Indian jail .
9 One man who 's spent 30 years in a wheelchair after 14 tons of metal dropped on his back , is certain most accidents would n't happen if workers themselves took responsibility for their own safety .
10 A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months .
11 He says along with friends he 's owed one thousand pounds in prize money .
12 Edinburgh District Council is facing legal action over the official who 's paid four hundred pounds a week to do nothing .
13 Sixty police officers have now joined in the hunt for a sex attacker who 's struck nine times .
14 This year he 's produced thirty per cent more than last year …
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