Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it about Jonah 's escapade that transfixes us ? |
| 2 | Pitt is obviously a big fan of his girlfriend 's talent and says he hopes to work with her a lot : ‘ Genius is n't a good word , because it 's been so abused , but … ’ |
| 3 | Hotek , a heretic priest of Vaul , steals the sacred hammer from Vaul 's Anvil and makes his way to Nagarythe . |
| 4 | ‘ Never is here , Den , ’ says George , then he throws off the lid of the Monster 's bin and heaves it up on his shoulder . |
| 5 | Paul raises his lover 's head and lowers his own lips as they kiss , Paul taking the weight of John 's body , and then John straining upwards with new strength to consume Paul , to tear his soul out through his mouth . |
| 6 | The new head of Soviet state television and radio , Leonid Kravchenko , says he was appointed to do the president 's bidding and thinks his job is to ensure that state television does not criticise the state . |
| 7 | But it is lang 's eclecticism that defines her career , and this is likewise the hallmark of many new country performers . |
| 8 | Just when you think you 've got it straight , along comes the Fool with his pig 's bladder and whops you on the nose . |
| 9 | McDunn comes back towards the car , catches Havell 's eye and beckons him . |
| 10 | This account sums up much of Law 's appeal and explains his quick success as leader . |
| 11 | The first phase of the research compares the way that expertise is learned in the normal way , with the way that a ‘ knowledge engineer ’ elicits an expert 's knowledge and transfers it to a computer programme . |
| 12 | Crilly leads me into Perry 's flat and seats me beside him on the orange settee . |
| 13 | And then your editor goes on Jonathan Ross ' show and humiliates him more ( I have written a letter to Ross as well , for laughing at Jason like that ) . |
| 14 | A tug on it sounds a buzzer in the driver 's cab and brings him to a halt . |
| 15 | Manipulating this much information puts a considerable strain on the processor 's memory and gives you a storage problem to boot ! |
| 16 | The husband is one potentially appreciative figure in the housewife 's landscape but does he play this role effectively ? |
| 17 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 18 | ‘ She mourns Moodie 's death and has her own explanation of it . ’ |
| 19 | This picks up the transmitter 's signal and makes it audible to our ears when the ferret is within range . |
| 20 | The feature of Althusser 's view that repels his liberal critics is his neglect of what they take to be a central distinction between the essential and contingent properties of individuals . |
| 21 | A small boy laughs an unforgivable sin in such a sober and wary atmosphere , his grandad scolds him for destroying the unquiet silence which haunts the underground , he grabs the toy gun clasped in his grandson 's fist and confiscates it after letting it wave foolishly , causing several greatly disturbed heads to turn , he buries into the depths of his duffle coat pocket . |
| 22 | A kiai harnesses the body 's energy and allows it to escape by an aggressive exhalation of breath , either just before or during an attack . |
| 23 | The fifth band affects a dowser 's balance and throws them to one side : it is strongest at new and full moon . |
| 24 | The curvature and stress-energy tensors , and Einstein 's equation that links them , will be discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 25 | Yolande , his queen , who could not even be bothered to inspect her dead husband 's corpse but keeps herself closeted at Kinghorn , claiming she is pregnant ? |
| 26 | Along the way he recreates Nicholson 's grandstand rebel yell in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest and confirms his repressed screen love persona in perhaps his sweetest , saddest relationship . |
| 27 | think of an addition to the other person 's idea that improves it and overcomes the snag you have identified . |
| 28 | The manager objectively describes the person 's performance but says nothing further . |
| 29 | Anyone who ignores the spectrum of Mozart 's wit and limits his interest to faecal parlance is bound to misdiagnose his personality . |
| 30 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |