Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly . |
| 2 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 3 | I suspect that the Secretary of State 's inability to press that policy on the industry , and the industry 's failure to adopt it voluntarily before now , has done much to heighten public awareness of the reticence of the Secretary of State and of the industry to take the issue as seriously as they might . |
| 4 | Woman 's ability to assimilate the language of men and man 's inability to fathom that of women is craftily demonstrated by a selective summary of Herodotus 's account of the oracles of Dodona and his description of the Amazons : |
| 5 | MAS would also review SPG 's progress to ensure that , prior to partner profiling and on the basis of publicly available information , there are no fundamental reasons why it should not be possible to conclude a deal with each of the partners identified through the above process . |
| 6 | The negligence aspect of it , if somebody is negligent and does n't , for example , keep the engine oil topped up and they drive their vehicle until the engine seizes , in fairness it 's not the insurance company 's responsibility to put that right if the customer has been negligent , and I do n't think any reasonable person would ask us to do that in that situation . |
| 7 | The government may , for example , specify a target rate of growth for the money supply and it will then be the Bank of England 's responsibility to achieve that target . |
| 8 | Thus after just two years ' trading SOFFEX 's turnover exceeded that of LTOM . |
| 9 | Fortunately , the Scottish Rugby Union bridged the gap by serving the party with tea , and the hospitable Heriot 's club followed that up with something a little stronger . |
| 10 | The authors speculated that this discrimination occurred in shortlisting for senior house officer and senior registrar posts ( rather than in interviews ) , and today 's study supports that speculation . |
| 11 | Swanson 's abduction followed that of a Negros-based Japanese aid worker , Fumio Mizuno , who was seized by the NPA on May 29 . |
| 12 | Ham 's research indicates that government ministers played a more important role than local administrators in determining the course of implementation of this initiative . |
| 13 | The policies of autarchy represented the regime 's attempt to implement that declaration of intent . |
| 14 | One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems . |
| 15 | discount represents the Government 's attempt to meet that need , but have they really considered whether the figure relates precisely to people 's incomes ? |
| 16 | Bush 's humiliation approached that of George McGovern in 1972 , when he won only two seats in his attempt to oust Richard Nixon . |
| 17 | In 1905 J H M Wedderburn proved that every finite division ring is a field , a result which provides the only known proof that in a finite projective plane Desargue 's theorem implies that of Pappus [ 13 ] . |
| 18 | Now I know the love for a man and the love for one 's child are two totally different things , but it 's not always simple for the father of one 's child to understand that . |
| 19 | In the USSR 's case , this pressure would be especially great , as the regime 's legitimacy demands that history move in its favour . |
| 20 | Later , back up the shore beside their picnic blanket , beside Karen 's sun dress that was now a mass of creeping black , the girls lay on their stomachs and talked again of Parr , desultorily . |
| 21 | And the cabin 's ambience reinforced that view . |
| 22 | For God 's sake get that scowl off your face . ’ |
| 23 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
| 24 | Not riveting stuff , but at least understandable to you know , the man on the Clapham omnibus , and it probably tells him enough to say to his , his child , you know , for heaven 's sake take that Sony Walkman off . |
| 25 | For god 's sake cut that down . |
| 26 | From Carson to Paisley one finds the argument that it is legitimate to fight to regain one 's fundamental freedom if the sovereign with whom one has covenanted one 's allegiance betrays that allegiance and conducts one into slavery . |
| 27 | And it 's not everybody 's job to do that , so ordinary people took the jobs as shunters and could be taught how to do it in short time , if they were average and er in good health . |
| 28 | What remains at the heart of this conflict is the government 's reluctance to accept that community care is not a cheap option . |
| 29 | But Carter , who has offered four top players £100,000 each in a bid to make pool 's profile rival that of snooker , said : ‘ I know there was a bit of bother . |
| 30 | " Leftism " came to mean opposition to the National government and criticism of the Labour Party 's failure to express that opposition more strongly . |