Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 2 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 3 | A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines , fleeing religious persecution in Germany , and the Whig ministry 's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709 . |
| 4 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 5 | The Ideal had to close down , and a vandal 's brick made it the Id al , which spelled the end of an era . |
| 6 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 7 | The company 's chairman says its the only consignment they 've ever handled |
| 8 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 9 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |
| 10 | One Friday morning the sergeant in charge of Eva 's brigade gave her the task of cleaning the brass window winders and door handles in the assembly hall . |
| 11 | The side Quiss belonged to called it Castle Doors , Ajayi 's side named it the Castle of Bequest . |
| 12 | Then the cheeky four-year-old showed off by singing her favourite song — the drinker 's ditty Show Me The Way To Go Home . |
| 13 | Durrant 's determination won him the ball at the byeline just inside the Marseille penalty area . |
| 14 | Readiness refers to an individual 's attitude towards the change , and capability refers to an individual 's capacity to do whatever the change requires of him or her . |
| 15 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 16 | That was puzzling Claudia , but a moment 's reflection gave her the answer . |
| 17 | Sun will claim Dragon 's architecture makes it the most expandable Unix server in the business , capable of piling on memory , I/O , disk and CPUs and clearing up a lot of the bottleneck issues . |
| 18 | ‘ For God 's sake tell me the truth . |
| 19 | Bowes must have taken Nedham into God 's Gift to show him the place where the accident happened . |
| 20 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 21 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 22 | That night Anthony 's wife sent me the following balm from Chequers : |
| 23 | The Vicar 's wife gave her the magazine to edit and type up . |
| 24 | The three years stretching ahead seemed like a long time , then , worth buying a little house in Rummidge for ( Robyn 's father lent her the money for the deposit ) rather than paying rent . |
| 25 | In 1238 Alexander III 's father promised me the crown but then he married again and begat Alexander , the third of that name , and the up was dashed from my lips . |
| 26 | The Labour Party finally conceded defeat on April 25 after Moda'i confirmed on television that he would definitely support Likud , despite Peres 's offer to give him the deputy premiership and the finance portfolio . |
| 27 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 28 | Sadie 's bin givin' me the bloody ‘ ump the way she 's bin goin' on about our Billy . |
| 29 | Taheb 's litter carried them the short distance within the compound to the towering , dark house of the Controller of the Silver Mines . |
| 30 | Mr Portillo 's promotion makes him the youngest Cabinet minister since Dr David Owen was appointed Foreign Secretary under Labour . |