Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun sg] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers , with only one defeat in their previous 19 League games , had battled back to level terms when Ferdinand collected Impey 's pass and turned powerfully away from Kevin Moore 50 yards out . |
| 2 | But someone clutched desperately at his hand , dragging it down , tugging it with astonishing strength and speed away to the side , while Lachlan twisted himself free of Hector 's grip and ducked away . |
| 3 | However , he is quickly conquered by Tamburlaine 's rhetoric and comes across as a weak and easily influenced man , not to say disloyal to King Mycetes . |
| 4 | The emphasis of the research is on Kaldor 's writing and thinking rather than on his life in the biographical sense , although there are distinct phases in his intellectual life that can be easily identified . |
| 5 | I am now in Capt. Friend 's office and have only a short time to write before the post leaves . |
| 6 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 7 | The guard returned Manville 's gun and saluted briskly . |
| 8 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 9 | He shook off Dana 's hand and walked heavily away . |
| 10 | Charles let a note of panic creep into Bill Holroyd 's voice and looked anxiously around the room . |
| 11 | Robertson is , like Levein , imagined to have a problem imposing himself on Roxburgh 's mind and has recently fallen further behind in the pecking order with the emergence of Eoin Jess at Aberdeen . |
| 12 | The reeve edged closer to Hugh 's shoulder and leaned confidingly to his ear . |
| 13 | She caught Katherine 's glance and smiled conspiratorially . |
| 14 | His name had somehow crossed Taylor 's mind and stuck there ; and he sued . |
| 15 | Reached through winding landscapes bathed in delicate hues reminiscent of a Perugino painting , Città della Pieve was Perugino 's birthplace and has hardly changed since renaissance times . |
| 16 | He rejoiced in Surrey 's resurgence under Ian 's captaincy and spoke nostalgically of the old ‘ Bordah ’ days . |
| 17 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 18 | Emily took a cab back to Mrs Simons 's house and went directly to her room . |
| 19 | In conclusion phlegmonous gastritis was found as the presenting symptom in a case of Sjögren 's syndrome and reacted well to steroid treatment . |
| 20 | But according to Paul Holmes , Date could not return Minton 's affection and seemed always a little embarrassed to be the object of such attention . |
| 21 | Rachel shrugged off Mandeville 's hand and looked once more at Benjamin . |
| 22 | As Tamar 's time drew closer , she remembered the difficult labour of Victoria 's birth and grew more and more apprehensive . |
| 23 | We did n't make many runs despite Ward 's gallantry and lost easily . |
| 24 | D'Arquebus evaded Yeremi 's grasp and raced aslant of the line of fire , right out in the open , seemingly intent on matching the speed of the skaters . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co is likely to steal DEC 's thunder and whisk away its number two position as the second largest computer vendor in the US by 1994 , Hembricht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 26 | Johnson took McQueen 's side and observed acidly that it was the Laird who should be forced to emigrate , at which McQueen respectfully and loyally demurred , knowing that the laird , to quote Boswell , ‘ could not shift for himself in America ’ . |
| 27 | Brett broke free from Whitlock 's grip and stared angrily at him . |
| 28 | He told Carl to sit down , then he opened Harald 's passport and looked inside . |
| 29 | She pointed her gun at Harald 's head and laughed again . |
| 30 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |