Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a sound start from Gooch and Broad , England 's response belonged primarily to Gatting , and his 82 not out saw his team home with six wickets in hand . |
| 2 | Ten percent of last year 's income had again been designated for outward giving , the sum of £1,754 going to such national charities as the Emily Fund for abused children and the Church Housing Trust , and £844 for Kurdish and Romanian victims and other overseas causes . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 4 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 5 | Alton 's defence played soundly and the team looked dangerous on the break . |
| 6 | Thompson took a fine ball from Pugh after 12 minutes and again raced clear but Swansea 's defence snuffed out the danger . |
| 7 | Bath looked as if they were going to win , but Gloucester 's defence held out well . |
| 8 | John Paul Jones 's activities had strikingly demonstrated the vulnerability of the coastline and the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser accompanied its report of the raid on St Mary 's Isle with some distinctly sharp observations : |
| 9 | An inquiry into that case showed that the head 's activities had probably been common knowledge among the staff for years . |
| 10 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 11 | Crail 's activities declined long ago and now there are only a few shellfish boats , but its seventeenth-century Customs House is still an attractive feature of the harbour . |
| 12 | The insurers also sought to distinguish Lawrence by contending that in that case the student 's money had not passed to the taxi driver and that the student had not conferred on the taxi driver the rights of an owner . |
| 13 | From the start , ITV programme scheduling was almost entirely determined , apart from the IBA 's requirements , by the need to get advertising revenue ( in its early years , one-quarter of ITV 's money came simply from the great washing-powder war ) . |
| 14 | But , sure enough , when Swansea 's money ran out , so did the players . |
| 15 | and J J , she got one week 's money did n't she ? |
| 16 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 17 | Head 's skis worked so well they were called ‘ cheaters ’ . |
| 18 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 19 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 20 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 21 | In contrast to Guinness I , Ward 's trial lasted just six weeks and was based on one charge . |
| 22 | The Act was a success , although the ‘ particulates ’ ( mainly soot ) raining down over Britain 's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s . |
| 23 | BBA 's board said yesterday that the remainder of the proceeds of the one-for-four rights issue at 142p a share , plus the recently-announced sale of BBA 's stake in Pacific BBA , would be used to cut borrowings . |
| 24 | A recent study by Bradford De Long of Harvard University concluded that the presence of a Morgan partner on a company 's board added up to 30% to a share 's value . |
| 25 | The car 's reliability increased immeasurably and Hunt finished eight of the fourteen races and scored a total of 33 points . |
| 26 | In addition , the DFR 's text differed sharply from that of the ocean bill of lading in that it lacked the terms and conditions of carriage , including disclaimers . |
| 27 | Jinkwa 's foot hovered eagerly over the firing button . |
| 28 | Gemayel 's foot tapped up and down as he warmed to his subject , his large oak desk shaking slightly with the vibration . |
| 29 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |
| 30 | But Mike Felton 's foot had n't kicked her , he had moved it quickly out of the way and caught her as she fell and so saving her head from coming into contact with the brass coal bucket . |