Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian then set Jo 's hair using the Pin-curl technique and styled it using products from the Schwarzkopf Silhouette professional range . |
| 2 | Here was McCreery 's HQ giving the widest possible interpretation to the term " allied national " to include anyone " born within pre-1939 , frontier of an " Allied country " , which of course would also have covered all Russian emigres regardless of when they had left Russia . |
| 3 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 4 | COHQ 's plan avoiding a frontal assault was changed when direction of the raid passed to the Army 's UK Home Forces Command , after a political decision was made to replace the marines with Canadian forces . |
| 5 | At next week 's council meeting the ruling Labour group will submit a motion of censure asking Mr McVickers , a Newcastle United director , to withdraw the remark and apologise . |
| 6 | In the Third World the charge is that the present international economic order is fundamentally unjust , with a minority of the world 's population consuming an enormous share of the world 's GNP , not to mention their extravagant consumption of a large amount of non-renewable resources . |
| 7 | Meteorological Office researchers followed Eggborough 's plume crossing the Welsh mountains . |
| 8 | A row of well-designed awnings can transform a building , especially if they incorporate the hotel 's or restaurant 's logo using the same colour schemes . |
| 9 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |
| 10 | The Halling factories each had a cooper 's shop employing a considerable number of men . |
| 11 | LIKE a builder 's spade hitting an unexploded bomb , a great wartime mystery re-emerged last month at a tiny Suffolk fishing village called Shingle Street . |
| 12 | Retiring after ten years with the company was Joe Lofthouse , while the six others each had over forty year 's service demonstrating a tremendous loyalty . |
| 13 | They will spend Valentine 's Day putting the final touches to their wedding following a whirlwind telephone romance . |
| 14 | Great stories about — Brown on a winter 's day leading a verglassed Freddie 's Finale ; Robin Barley out there on Macabre ; Beardie cruising the hill-streets of Meanwood … |
| 15 | She was sitting in the main client 's chair wearing a dark brown suit with a faint orange check and clutching a huge floppy handbag in her lap . |
| 16 | The most significant of these , in the Peterborough Museum , is a painted sherd showing a blacksmith 's bench supporting a typical triangular anvil ; an angle-iron for bending strips and bars and , on the edge of the sherd , the forge itself with curls of smoke rising from it . |
| 17 | A few days later Gorbachev was back on Lenin 's tomb watching the Soviet tanks and legions saluting the 45th anniversary of victory in the second world war . |
| 18 | Leaders of the GM Vauxhall Conference , Colchester are 5–4 favourites to emulate Wealdstone 's double feat of 1985 and go into today 's first-leg seeking the first domestic trophy in their 55-year history . |
| 19 | By a very ingenious mechanism a wooden screen can separate the transport from the body of the church at a moment 's notice reducing the latter in size when necessary and converting the former into a commodious , well lighted lecture hall . |
| 20 | The spaceport was off in the distance ahead of them , a giant depression in the midst of the great glacial plateau of ice — the City 's edge forming a great wall about the outer perimeter . |
| 21 | But listen , if you lived a nomad 's life wandering the high mountains you would understand . |
| 22 | The film version of Without You I 'm Nothing features Sandra 's voice singing a slowed-down version of Prince 's ‘ Little Red Corvette ’ while she dances , wearing tassels on her nipples and a tiny stars-and-stripes shield on her crotch . |
| 23 | The Padre 's voice reading the 116th Psalm echoed between the walls of the hospital and those of the Residency . |
| 24 | Students of form will already have been alerted to Lacotte 's potential following an eyecatching second to Lord President on the July Course last summer . |
| 25 | Inspectors will walk the river 's length discussing the new protected area 's boundaries with landowners . |
| 26 | Perhaps some people are n't aware that the title Defender of the Faith was given to Henry VIII by the Pope in honour of Henry 's book praising the Catholic Church . |
| 27 | Nancy Clark borrowed a leaf from the TV sleuth 's book following the baffling murder of her sister Elizabeth and Elizabeth 's husband Nicholas . |
| 28 | At the Congress itself , there was a strong fight , and Lenin 's resolution affirming the traditional position was opposed by 16 ( with 18 abstaining ) but with 56 in favour . |
| 29 | Opened up , it contains only a rapid sketch of the artist 's hand holding a supplicatory top hat , above the characteristic signature . |
| 30 | Behind him lay the bulk of the church , its spire 's shadow throwing a neat triangle across the grass . |