Example sentences of "[vb base] 's [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You just want 's name do n't you ?
2 ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . )
3 Well , when you 've got five minutes come and knock 's door .
4 And for me , Forget 's comment that ‘ I do n't think the Americans realised how much the Davis Cup meant to the French team and the French people ’ , said it all .
5 In some ways ‘ Kaldor 's Law ’ could be seen as a re-statement of Say 's Law : supply creates its own demand .
6 This became known as Say 's Law , named after the French economist Jean Baptiste Say ( 1767–1832 ) .
7 To illustrate Say 's Law , consider e. 2 which shows a simplified version of the circular flow of income diagram .
8 Given this , it is no longer possible for the rate of interest to ensure equality between planned saving and planned investment and so Say 's Law will no longer hold .
9 Say 's Law
10 A servant write verses ! say 's Madam Du Bloom ;
11 Doubtless his friends and family were working on his behalf and might well be involved with Peggy Say 's campaign .
12 He , he , he , … say 's Miss Flounce ; I suppose we shall see
13 Second , they agree on the conclusion that the solipsist 's charade of concentrating on an experience and pronouncing a word , no matter how fervently , can not succeed in establishing a rule which the solipsist can follow in a new case .
14 Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample .
15 What is wrong with the solipsist 's language is not that there is no community to control it ; Robinson Crusoe can talk to himself and keep a diary on his desert island .
16 For the classical foundationalist programme of starting from one 's own case and moving outwards suffers from all the radical defects which face the solipsist 's attempt to set up a language in which to describe the experiences which form his subject matter .
17 According to Wittgenstein , this initial belief is as incoherent as the solipsist 's claim to be able to set up a private language , since it relies upon too great a gap between our behaviour ( including linguistic behaviour ) and internal mental life .
18 and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me .
19 Its ma rule of thumb that if a wean 's auld enough tae ask fur titty then he 's too auld tae get but then —
20 It is Alan Usher 's contention that if this evidence had come to light before the trial , a third opinion could have been obtained from a specialist paediatric pathologist .
21 Usher 's share shot up 85p to 165p , rewarding shareholders who had held on through thick and thin .
22 The Usher 's salary was increased from £105 to 150 guineas .
23 He had never felt so abandoned as here at the top of this tall silent house on Usher 's Quay .
24 Nick Speak 's century spanned only 79 deliveries as the Yorkshire attack wilted .
25 It waved in the wind , bristly as a centipede 's legs .
26 Heren was actually in Palestine in 1948 and was one of the first correspondents to enter Deir Yassin after the massacre of its Arab residents by Menachem Begin 's Irgun gunmen .
27 Kwik Save 's success has acted as a magnet to continental European discounters : ‘ Three years ago there was only really Kwik Save , ’ says Henrik Gundelach who is in charge of Netto 's British business .
28 SAVE 's solicitors argued that the House of Lords judgment ‘ extends to the case where the demolition , although not total , is sufficiently substantial to alter or remove the identity of the building ’ .
29 On the basis of Mr Freeson 's letter , SAVE 's solicitors advised that SAVE should take out an action for mandamus , a court order to force a minister to do what he is obliged to do under statute .
30 1977 saw the opening of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ Change and Decay : The Future of our Churches ’ , which was organized by two of SAVE 's committee members .
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