Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A buffeting wind rushed over the land , bringing with it salt that clung insistently to Elisabeth 's face . |
| 2 | The tensions and conflicts that arose out of Italy 's struggle for unification were paralleled in the art of the nineteenth-century by the antagonism between Romanticism and Realism . |
| 3 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 4 | Both the food and the surroundings more than lived up to Luke 's predictions . |
| 5 | Bernice almost laughed at the comical expression of shock that passed momentarily over Molassi 's normally impassive features . |
| 6 | But in 1838 it was Malthus 's theodicy of ancient empires , not his political economy of the modern state that bore decisively on Darwin 's biogeography and ecology ( Bowler , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | It was Jim Callaghan 's dithering in 1978 and failure to anticipate the horrors and effect of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ that contributed substantially to Labour 's defeat in the General Election the following year . |
| 8 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 9 | Sylvie recognized the look that came momentarily over Alexei 's face . |
| 10 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 11 | But he was n't prepared for the shock of seeing those eyes , his daughter 's eyes of startling green flecked with gold , that looked out from Simon 's face . |
| 12 | Mr Swanson arrived at the reception area and was shown to the private lift that went straight to Miranda 's office on the top floor . |
| 13 | An umpire told me : ‘ What 's happened to Don was no reflection on his unswerving attempt to get the truth told over everything that went on at Lord 's . |
| 14 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 15 | She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman . |
| 16 | Destroying everything that went before in Franco 's times . |
| 17 | ‘ Sing for my supper , ’ Alina said with a kind of bitter weariness that ran completely against Angelica 's perception of her character . |
| 18 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 19 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 20 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 21 | He took a deep breath and gazed squarely into Kirov 's eyes . |
| 22 | Athelstan rubbed his mouth with his thumb and gazed directly at Cranston 's sorrowful face . |
| 23 | WILLIAMS is arrested and led off at BELVILLE 's bidding . ] |
| 24 | ‘ Yes sir , ’ said Anne and moved slowly to Gilbert 's desk . |
| 25 | I dismissed the thoughts as too disturbing and concentrated instead on Selkirk 's poem . |
| 26 | She glanced around the varying expressions , and focussed finally on Guy 's calm , unreadable gaze . |
| 27 | The harsh central neon light glared down onto the contours of the sheeting , and gouged back at Erlich 's eyes from the white-tiled walls . |
| 28 | He managed to sleep for a couple of hours , then rose and wandered off to Franco 's bar to see if Maidstone was there . |
| 29 | Fonda finished reading and drove around to Nicholson 's house . |
| 30 | Now Evans got back into his car and drove round to Connon 's house . |