Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 2 | At 10 minutes to midday , Gower square-drove Aqib to the Wilson 's Stand to reach 34 and ascend the pedestal as England 's highest Test runscorer . |
| 3 | The basic chef 's course lasts 19 weeks ( shortened for those already holding City & Guilds 706 ) , covers fundamental culinary skills and is open to 18–25 year olds . |
| 4 | The prosecution 's case lasted five months , after which the jury was sent away for 75 days , partly for a holiday and partly while the judge heard legal arguments . |
| 5 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 6 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 7 | The NUS paper presented to Whitley led to the Group 's decision to allocate two re-assigned Model 30s for student computing use , as per item ( 2 ) above . |
| 8 | Campese 's decision robbed 60,000 in the stadium , and countless millions around the world , of what would have been one of the most intense and fascinating finales to the World Cup , with England only three points behind , their heads up and winning score in sight . |
| 9 | The interest in the sale comes in the wake of Durham County Council 's decision to close eight of its homes . |
| 10 | ( Chlorine , though , already one of the main commodity businesses when ICI began in the 1920s , still accounts for a remarkable 12% of total sales ; the proportion will be reduced by last month 's decision to shut two chlorine plants at Hillhouse , Lancashire . ) |
| 11 | Yesterday 's decision concluded one of the most embarrassing chapters in racing history and brought the curtain down on the ‘ National That Never Was . ’ |
| 12 | It concluded that there were grounds under EC rules on state aids to exempt Lisbon 's decision to contribute 30 per cent toward the ECU 564.5m restructuring of EPSI . |
| 13 | Former England paceman , Mike Hendrick , has defended Nottinghamshire 's decision to sack four of their most senior players . |
| 14 | Hence the government 's decision to send 600 soldiers and 75 unarmed policemen to Cambodia . |
| 15 | Opposition parties feared that the AP 's decision to impeach eight of the Court 's judges was part of a strategy to create a compliant judiciary in order to facilitate its electoral victory in the 1993 presidential elections . |
| 16 | Related developments included a direct agreement between Canada and Russia on credits to buy Canadian grain and the RFSFR 's decision to establish six economic zones in the republic which would offer special tax and custom duty privileges to foreign companies . |
| 17 | Angered by Hoover 's decision to switch 400 jobs from Dijon to Cambuslang , Mr Mitterrand told a television audience that the 11 other nations would eventually force Britain to stop what he described as unfair competition by opting out of the social chapter . |
| 18 | Laboratory analysis for the presence of various metals was not routinely carried out , however , until a couple of years ago , when it was suddenly discovered that McDonald 's effluent contained 256 p.p.m. of zinc , a by-product of the glazing process . |
| 19 | The President 's cabin lay three miles into the reserve , four miles to the north and a good eight hundred feet above the lodge , and divided from it by a small tributary of the Makaa so Trent could expect no help there even if the owner was in residence . |
| 20 | I ca n't wait for the teacher 's watch to say 4.30 so I can go home . |
| 21 | Claire 's watch says sixty minutes . |
| 22 | Norton 's Coin won four point-to-points out of ten runs over three seasons and then developed into a good chaser : by the time of his Gold Cup attempt he had won four of his fourteen races under Rules , including a valuable chase at Cheltenham the previous April . |
| 23 | mum Pauline 's mum had two in less |
| 24 | Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back . |
| 25 | In early February 1990 Croatia 's parliament endorsed 10 amendments allowing multiparty and secret elections and broader political reform . |
| 26 | It is difficult to obtain precise figures of private sector investment in the inner cities , but there may be reasons to doubt industry 's willingness to commit billions of pounds to inner city developments . |
| 27 | Membership of Templer 's Park costs 75,000 ringiit ( $10,000 ) . |
| 28 | The Nicholson 's computer recorded 25 knots across the deck , and offered advice about what to do with it . |
| 29 | The twin-tube dampers are also controlled by the system 's computer to select one of three characteristics : comfort , normal or sport . |
| 30 | They are both deeply influenced by the theology of the great St Augustine of Hippo ( 354–430 ) who had described the Trinity in psychological terms : just as the human mind , which was created in God 's image , had three powers — memory , understanding and will — so God 's unity contained Three Persons , which corresponded to these human powers . |