Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As reported in the October issue of Wood News , TESL 's operations revolve around a system called MERCAD [ Measurements Electronically Recorded Computer Automated Draughting ] . |
| 4 | QUOTE : AS ESSEX 'S fielders lumbered around gifting as many runs as they could , Ilott was seen sprinting around the boundary as if disgusted by the whole charade . |
| 5 | One game , called Net Trek , which has recently made the transition from PD to commercial product , uses sounds sampled from the Star Trek television series to accompany the user 's attempts to pilot around a galaxy of other Mac users , when all the machines are connected together by the network . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind the England team 's attempts to break out , cricket must have seemed an appropriate fund-raising event , and a knock-out competition among teams from the media will be played this weekend at North Middlesex CC , Park Road , Hornsey , London . |
| 7 | Over £100 000 was at stake in two cases , and the authority 's attempts to claw back some of this were being resisted fiercely . |
| 8 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 9 | The debate over 1990 funding for the NEA , and Jesse Helms 's attempts to cut off federal funding for art that he and the fundamentalist lobby find obscene , continues . |
| 10 | like Algernon 's attempts to clear up his acne with Colgate instead of Clearasil |
| 11 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 12 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 13 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 14 | Or one of Satan 's scouts calling up the legions of the damned from the abyss of Hell ? |
| 15 | YORK Minster 's bells rang out over the city for the first time in six months at the weekend their longest break since the Second World War . |
| 16 | The tax 's defenders point out that only between a third and a half of church members pay the levy , and then only in proportion to their incomes . |
| 17 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 18 | Matters were made worse when Chilperic had his wife Galswinth murdered : she was the sister of Sigibert 's wife , Brunhild , and not surprisingly Chilperic 's half-brothers ganged up on him . |
| 19 | Subject to the importance of the property assets as part of the business acquisition , it is advisable that the purchaser 's solicitors carry out a full investigation of title to establish that the purchaser will acquire the property assets free from any adverse encumbrances , obligations or restrictions . |
| 20 | One of Mozart 's contemporaries summed up what were probably the feelings of many fellow-musicians on hearing the news of his death : it was , of course , a pity that such a great genius was dead , but on the whole it was a good thing for the others . |
| 21 | In not much of a festive mood , Princess Diana 's sons drove off yesterday to Sandringham and the first-ever Christmas without their mother , who has rejected the Queen 's invitation to join the family festivities . |
| 22 | Princess of Wales 's sons drive off to Sandringham |
| 23 | Paul Arkwright 's sons grew up without brilliance . |
| 24 | and may your mother 's sons bow down to you . |
| 25 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 26 | The ASB 's proposals build on and develop those of the Accounting Standards Committee published as ED48 in 1990 . |
| 27 | Before darkness fell , and the attempt could be made , Edward 's heralds came back for their answer . |
| 28 | Bella 's fingers reached down and began a slow upward movement on the inside of Johnny 's thigh , the long scarlet nails making a faint scratching sound on the material of his trousers . |
| 29 | Clock 's fingers whizz round to 1.45 . |
| 30 | Eventually the doctor 's fingers came back again , back to where the lump was . |