Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] 's [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that Chilperic 's actions immediately after his father 's death were intended to ensure that he was not excluded from the succession by his half-brothers . |
| 2 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 3 | The defendant submitted , consistently with the conduct of the defence at the trial , that the trial judge ought not to have excluded his evidence , or any other admissible evidence which he could have elicited by cross-examination , tending to show that Paulette was addicted to drugs in the form of cocaine and ganja cigarettes , the defendant 's object being to show that Paulette 's conduct just before the shooting rendered more credible the now irrelevant defence of provocation and the defence of accident . |
| 4 | A period of almost literally climbing the walls , turning away from the world and kneeling up , holding the end of the iron hospital bed , and Lisa 's hand firmly on the pain , firmly on the small of her back pressing , pressing , pressing away the pain and the fear , keeping her in contact . |
| 5 | Like most of Karajan 's judgements , it is rational and soundly based , though it will always disappoint English music-lovers for whom the early 1950s Philharmonia was a high-water mark in the country 's orchestral affairs , matched only by such other brief periods of glory as those enjoyed by Beecham 's LPO and Boult 's BBC SO in the 1930s and the LSO in the Monteux , Kertész , and early Previn years . |
| 6 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 7 | Apart from the meeting and coronation in London , and Cnut 's presence there at Christmas 1017 for Eadric 's execution , little is known of his whereabouts very early in the reign . |
| 8 | Terry Butcher , the former England centre half who was sacked as Coventry 's player-manager earlier in the season , has made a surprise comeback as a player . |
| 9 | In the next few years , as Gloucester 's power elsewhere in the north grew , his influence in Lancashire became more narrowly defined . |
| 10 | In the next few years , as Gloucester 's power elsewhere in the north grew , his influence in Lancashire became more narrowly defined . |