Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Claudia 's defences rose to the attack . |
| 2 | Even if Dr Courtney 's case went to the Court of Appeal , it would be unlikely to impose the stiffest jail term of life imprisonment . |
| 3 | Shakespear 's Sister took to the stage to what must be the worst intro tape I 've ever heard . |
| 4 | I am dying , Egypt , dying , her mind gabbled when Dotty Blundell 's brassière fell to the dusty floor . |
| 5 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 6 | THE number of deaths last year on Britain 's roads fell to the lowest level since records began in 1926 . |
| 7 | Kelly 's mum came to the school and took her away . |
| 8 | Georgia 's parliament appealed to the United Nations on Thursday , saying : ‘ The events of recent days in Abkhazia confirm Russia is expanding the scope of its undeclared war against Georgia . ’ |
| 9 | The buyer 's carrier went to the cold store with a delivery order . |
| 10 | The room started to fade , as Grant 's mind succumbed to the strong sedative the doctor had administered to him . |
| 11 | Such was the force of the bump that Angel 's horse crashed to the ground , temporarily winded . |
| 12 | Last June 's vote led to the creationof a 17-strong block called the European Right , consisting of members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front from France , the Republicans from West Germany ( led by a former Waffen-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber ) , and a Belgian from the wilder shores of Flemish nationalism . |
| 13 | When the press-box at Winchester Crown Court was commandeered by barristers for one massive conspiracy case in 1974 , the Lord Chancellor 's Department apologised to the NUJ . |
| 14 | Schmidt 's eyes went to the sound . |
| 15 | ‘ Get Hammond in here , ’ he said , noting the way his assistant 's eyes went to the boy . |
| 16 | Nuadu 's eyes went to the other captives and Fenella at once said , ‘ Yes , of course , all of you . |
| 17 | Ashley 's eyes went to the thin white scar which snaked from his temple to his jaw . |
| 18 | Jeopardy 's eyes slid to the left and he caught sight of Lucien . |
| 19 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 20 | Whitlock 's eyes flickered to the two sombre-suited men standing apart from the others , Paul Brett and Jack Rogers . |
| 21 | Doyle 's eyes flickered to the nearest table behind Rosie . |
| 22 | Katherine 's eyes flew to the Princesse . |
| 23 | The girl 's eyes swivelled to the left and stared at the locker-top where the officer had left his hat , then to the right , watching him . |
| 24 | Hattie 's parents came to the concert tonight cos Hattie 's in the choir |
| 25 | Robyn 's gaze fell to the floor . |
| 26 | The man 's gaze went to the screamer , wavered , then returned to Jude . |
| 27 | There was controversy in heat seven when after Bargh and Juul had beaten off the challenge of Dave Cheshire and Odom , Boro 's Australian complained to the referee that a lighting fault had affected his vision . |
| 28 | The Gartner Group 's bandwagon came to the UK recently , where it used a conference in London — Open Systems : A Mix of Myth and Reality — for the launch of its latest consultancy package , the Open Systems Service . |
| 29 | Croatia : More than 11 per cent of Croatia 's population belonged to the Serbian minority , living mainly in Krajina , which remained economically underdeveloped and vulnerable to the influence of Milosevic and Serbian nationalists from the republic of Serbia . |
| 30 | Although much of Japan 's population flocked to the countryside after 1943 , as urban prospects improved many returned to the cities . |