Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also boosted by the pound 's strengthening against the dollar . |
| 2 | Lange 's replacement as party leader and Prime Minister , Geoffrey Palmer , lacked the authority and style to improve Labour 's standing with the voters . |
| 3 | Intervention from on high briefly disrupted Labour 's campaigning in the form of a chartered plane circling overhead , trailing a banner proclaiming ‘ Get Stuffed Boyo ’ . |
| 4 | There are also growing rumblings of discontent among Labour 's Left about the party 's drift in recent years into what one MP described as ‘ designer socialism packaged by the yuppie tendency ’ . |
| 5 | What is the agent 's standing in the business community of the market in terms of professional integrity and reputation , reliability , etc. ? |
| 6 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 7 | Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality . |
| 8 | DISTILLERY 'S turned on the style at Ballyskeagh yesterday , and the highlight of an impressive team display was the performance of goalkeeper Dave Collins . |
| 9 | The car 's pointing in the right direction . ’ |
| 10 | The car 's rolling in the fence . |
| 11 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |
| 12 | Ben 's car 's going off the road in two weeks |
| 13 | Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman 's thinking in the formative years of BR . |
| 14 | I saw an incidence er down in the , the mine a , a miner himself can tell , by the creak of a tree just where the heavy , heavy weight 's coming on the , on the , the roof . |
| 15 | Mika 's going round the world . |
| 16 | ‘ The way the light 's reflected in the dark water . |
| 17 | but black the orange light 's shining on the red button made it look black . |
| 18 | The BBC 's attempt to record a guitar recital in the small parish church of St Helen , at Brant Broughton , in Lincolnshire , was interrupted by a sparrow 's chirruping from the eaves . |
| 19 | ‘ The patrol boat 's coming in the other side of the key . |
| 20 | In Washington in mid-May , Martin Indyk , Middle East guru in the White House 's National Security Council , gave a talk on the Clinton administration 's thinking on the Gulf . |
| 21 | The Cemetery Club 's showing at the Wyvern until Saturday night . |
| 22 | You know how important it is , a club 's known by the quality of its fourth side . |
| 23 | Her granny 's banging on the door was like music to her ears . |
| 24 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 25 | it 's bad enough standing there trying to be calm and nonchalant like most bloke 's do in the fucking underwear department . |
| 26 | Disgruntled Conservative agriculturalists and imperialists resented Bonar Law 's dropping of the ‘ food taxes ’ in the winter of 1912–13 , and although he survived the initial furore sparked by this decision it was not clear that the ill feeling had been fully dissipated or his leadership wholly secured . |
| 27 | Law 's feeling for the sense of the party was less sure than usual in 1916 but , once certain of the party feeling and the national interest , he did not waver in his demand for a different sort of government . |
| 28 | ‘ Sun 's rising in the East now ; gone to shine on your Mom . ’ |
| 29 | They draw implications in the world of a deaf child 's hearing through the early fitting of a hearing aid and point out that even under these advantageous circumstances a deaf child 's functional hearing may not be comparable to that of hearing children at the same sound levels . |
| 30 | Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously . |