Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your father had made no will of his own , all the relation 's money came to you and her . ’ |
| 2 | As the drop-ship yawed away , fleeing , a hem of the cat 's cradle dipped towards it . |
| 3 | Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle . |
| 4 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 5 | A few nights later she went with Maureen to Benediction , and as she glanced at her sister , deep in prayer , Anne was conscious of how much Maureen 's faith meant to her , and how her own well-meant interference might have severed that lifeline for her beloved sister . |
| 6 | Offa 's Dyke , covering lines some 150 miles long , although at points perhaps relying on rivers rather than ramparts for defence , is a work which reveals a tremendous ability to organise labour : the Danish Danevirke is child 's play compared with it . |
| 7 | Often the night 's play begins with us going out and helping Jews . |
| 8 | Appeals If an Industrial Tribunal 's decision goes against you , you can only appeal in limited circumstances . |
| 9 | The purchaser ( If a licensed business from the trustee of a bankrupt certificate-holder must with reasonable dispatch get the bankrupt 's certificate transferred to him . |
| 10 | He refused to send his horses to be shod at our smithy after that ; for once the smith 's verdict got around it would be difficult for him to sell the mare . |
| 11 | James 's mum said to me , and she does n't know her from Adam , she said |
| 12 | Along the chain of consequence , from atomic decay to my act of observation , things must have got fixed at least by the time that the cat 's experience entered into it . |
| 13 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |
| 14 | Gran 's stick lunged at it and dug out an ugly lump . |
| 15 | He dreamed of the bloodied face with the girl 's hair swinging over it , and of Annabel 's children , and then he surfaced again and went for a walk through Covent Garden fruit market , where Mr. Jenkins must already be at work . |
| 16 | Lisa 's heart stopped inside her . |
| 17 | His chin rose quickly in a proud gesture and George 's heart warmed to him . |
| 18 | No answer , but the pinched face reflected clearly enough how the boy 's heart sank within him . |
| 19 | The Aeschylean Titan , who , to his own cost , gives man fire and thereby civilization , has an artist 's confidence in the sufficiency of his own capacities and an artist 's readiness to suffer for it . |
| 20 | May I have the pleasure , monsieur , of introducing my two sons , boomed the senator , smiling into the wizened face of the Annamese mandarin while the governor 's aide translated for him . |
| 21 | By the open doors , Lily 's photograph stared at me from its table . |
| 22 | Clinical forensic medicine is a specialty and the FME 's practice falls into it . |
| 23 | Andrew 's deodorant sprayed in it I 've had Andy being sick on my hair |
| 24 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 25 | Rourke 's glance shifted over her . |
| 26 | Lachlan 's axe clashed with it in mid-sweep . |
| 27 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 28 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 29 | Five terrified drivers alerted police on mobile phones as Mr Furness 's car shot past them heading south down the northbound lanes . |
| 30 | She was still puzzling over the problem when she saw Joanna 's car coming towards her . |