Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fealy 's try gave Newbridge the lead after Hayward had missed with two earlier attempts . |
| 2 | But Chapman 's team-building made Arsenal the favourites . |
| 3 | Once the Church had decided that Mabel was illegitimate , the king 's court granted Richard the inheritance . |
| 4 | Then it is time for Frank to give a sample of his act , which is built around a ventriloquist 's dummy called Marvin the Monkey . |
| 5 | When the Dwarf King 's messenger reached Dieter the Emperor reacted immediately , not by sending help ( for the army was so starved of funds there was no help to send ) but by removing his entire court westwards to Altdorf in order to be as far as possible from the threat of Grom 's horde . |
| 6 | Kendall , who confirmed that Sunderland had made an inquiry for Tony Cottee , was delighted that his side 's performance spared Everton the potential embarrassment of replacing Forest at the foot of the Premier League table . |
| 7 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 8 | Midnight 's Children won Rushdie the 1981 Booker Prize and established his reputation . |
| 9 | Kjetil Rekdal 's penalty gave Norway the lead but Dennis Bergkamp stroked in an equaliser 30 seconds later . |
| 10 | Grimes 's pass gave Neal the opening goal with a remarkable reverse-stick shot . |
| 11 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |