Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] 's [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets .
32 You see the way it 's done a trace there , sometimes it 'll
33 A few occassions this year he 's had a go at some defender who is twice as big as him .
34 Well it 's up to Stan to yeah to have a go he 's got the pace he 's the quickest man on the field probably .
35 and er I said to Bev well you do what you like , you know , she went out , the first time she 's answered the phone , since
36 I mean er it 's , it 's a i i it 's sort of er you can read into it various sort of suggestions for radicalism but at the same time it 's got a lot of erm you know sort of and stuff about the rich peasants , erm land of the rich peasants should not be confiscated
37 I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England .
38 I understand that Sussex University does n't have a science park , but in fact it 's got a research park .
39 More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . )
40 He put it away , a bit of hesitation there in the Oxford United defence , and it 's a goal to Spurs scored by Gary Mafford , in fact he 's put the ball in the net ; mistake from Andy Melville gave Spurs a corner , the ball was n't cleared , Gascoigne played a one two , was blocked by United , it came out to Mafford in the end and the goal 's in so Spurs take the lead after eight minutes .
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