Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yanks are castigated for their heartless reaction to the deaths of civilians in Baghdad ( ‘ the manner of the American military 's response betrays something about its values , ’ opined Britain 's Independent on Sunday ) and mocked for the fear of terrorism that has kept them away from Europe — thus cruelly hurting Europe 's tourist business . |
| 2 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 3 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 4 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 5 | Tuesday 's afternoon show one till five with Jenny . |
| 6 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 7 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 8 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 9 | But I put it down to a natural wish on Jefferson 's part to protect what for him was a considerable investment in a new club and , if Harley 's new agent had exacted his usual pound , or stone rather , of flesh , a considerable investment in a golf pro . |
| 10 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 11 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 12 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 13 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 14 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 15 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 16 | ‘ PDAG passed a motion opposing the Government 's decision to abolish it as a democratic forum involved in education and the transfer its work to Government quangos , ’ said society education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis . |
| 17 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 18 | BARRY FRY wants to put Stan Flashman through the wringer by forcing the man dubbed ‘ Fat Stan ’ to account for yesterday 's decision to sack him as Barnet manager before an industrial tribunal . |
| 19 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 20 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 21 | The name change , Avalon says , represents the company 's decision to reposition itself in the client/server market . |
| 22 | IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space . |
| 23 | Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth . |
| 24 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 25 | Emerson 's story sent everybody into a tailspin [ he says ] , including Mary-Claude 's family in Lebanon . |
| 26 | The sweeper 's story reminded me of a tale told at Ross Carbery , County Cork . |
| 27 | 2 As you read your partner 's story compare it with what you heard when the story was told aloud . |
| 28 | 2 As you read your partner 's story compare it with what you heard when the story was told aloud . |
| 29 | ‘ Ted 's camp left nothing to chance , ’ he recalls . |
| 30 | Mazzin 's presence filled us with foreboding . |