Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun] or [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was not wholly serious about this , however , because I did not sell Hyde 's flat or destroy his clothes . |
| 2 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 3 | The idea behind this latest Spalding missile is that , because it spins less , it is more forgiving in terms of the higher handicapper 's hook or slice which is also , of course , part of the appeal of the metal wood . |
| 4 | Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars . |
| 5 | Above all , do not challenge the person 's motives or compare their performance directly with someone else 's . |
| 6 | If no common solution can be found neither team has the right to alter the other 's design or re-define their own spatial boundaries . |
| 7 | Dare to enter the terrifying Beast 's Lair or cheer your favourite knight in the spectacular jousting tournaments . |
| 8 | Oh , they were my daily joy , Dirty Dick , Harry , Bert , Prickwillow , working on the green baize under the bench lights , the elastic band round the grey heads holding the jeweller 's eyeglass or checking their tolerances with the white-coated draughtsmen , or rouging the last tenth of a thou from a newly-turned and bored brass centimetric attenuator . |
| 9 | ‘ The vet might put his hand into the dog 's mouth or pull its ears and there must be no aggressive or nervous response from the animal , ’ Joan explained . |
| 10 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 11 | Laboratory analyses often confirm a field man 's suspicions or draw his attention to pollution previously unnoticed . |
| 12 | These are : ( a ) That the officer can not discover the suspect 's name or believes he has given a false name . |
| 13 | Indeed it says that it wants to hand its own computer business over to NCR 's managers , and has pledged not to close the firm 's factories or sack its workers as a result of the merger . |
| 14 | According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% . |
| 15 | According to Reuter , Longuet said he did not exclude the possibility that foreign shareholders could increase their share of Bull 's capital or dominate it — at present , IBM Corp and NEC Corp each has about 5% . |
| 16 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 17 | As a church do we seek the crucified Christ in the poor and speak out with the prophet 's tongue or do we prefer to limit our view to a plaster statue and speak quietly in platitudes ? |
| 18 | If an employee has produced a computer program outside the normal course of his duties , but has used his employer 's equipment or done it during the hours of his employment , the ownership of copyright is more difficult to predict , although it is more likely that the employer will be treated as owner . |
| 19 | This whole business of sex education and teaching morality in schools , do you think it is the school 's responsibility or do you think mum and dad ought to play more of a part ? |
| 20 | Schemes that work in well-ordered German or American suburbs , whose honest burghers would never dream of squeezing their junk into a neighbour 's bin or chucking it over a fence at dead of night , may be less successful in city centres . |
| 21 | The Lord Chancellor will be given power to make rules allowing magistrates to disallow a solicitor 's costs or order him to pay costs if he fails to act reasonably competently or expeditiously . |
| 22 | If the continuing ritual represents a progressive pruning away of the trappings of mythology , then it would follow that no one has clipped the lion 's wings or fleaed his rump or pared his claws since all these things , like classical-cum-Shakespearian mythology , are the ritual entrappings of the culture from which our own is descended , preserved among us as ‘ survivals ’ . |
| 23 | Did they think I would loosen Ralemberg 's tongue or stir his memory ? |
| 24 | I tell you this sister only that you may be warned and not endanger your dear son 's health or put your husband to an unnecessary and useless journey . |