Example sentences of "'s [noun] and [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is Richard 's mum and dad buying him a little car ? |
| 2 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 3 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 4 | The composer 's liveliness and wit impressed him and , not least , his enthusiasm ( unsuspected by Nietzsche ) for Schopenhauer : " You will understand how much I enjoyed hearing him speak of Schopenhauer with indescribable warmth , what he owed to him , how he is the only philosopher who has understood the essence of music . " |
| 5 | If you 're lacking in self- confidence you may , do n't want , you do n't wan na get other people 's views and meekness impose them . |
| 6 | Grosvenor 's speeches and writings make it possible to reconstruct his political views in considerable detail . |
| 7 | The Lewis 's lightness and versatility made it useful in close-support infantry attacks also . |
| 8 | The same day the King died , late in the morning , this mysterious Frenchman hired my husband 's boat and services to take him across to Inverkeithing . |
| 9 | For me personally , the afternoon 's exercise and movement left me feeling very happy and relaxed . |
| 10 | Yet he still sees symbolic value in them , as a demonstration of Ukraine 's independence and readiness to defend it . |
| 11 | Somes 's prominence and wealth led him to develop an interest in the colonies , and he invested in the Western Australian Company , the North American Colonization Society of Ireland , and , above all , the New Zealand Company . |
| 12 | The sight of another person 's suffering and sacrifice stopped me thinking so much about my own problems . |
| 13 | The film 's director and producer promoted it as a serious and responsible piece of work . |
| 14 | Forget touch typing and full-screen editing , of course : the Portfolio 's keyboard and screen suit it only for note-taking , and its resident editing software is inadequate for anything more enterprising . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the growing emphasis on the achievement of targets could divert attention from the more substantive concerns of railway management with running a service to ‘ meet the needs of industry and the public ’ , as BR 's aims and objectives put it ( BRB 1980r : 5 ) . |
| 16 | The women 's stories and miseries haunted her , filled her dreams ; the desperation of their situations made Carolyn herself feel trapped and frantic , so that she dreaded going to the Refuge and was tongue-tied when her help was most needed . |
| 17 | Chekhov was Dad 's favourite all-time writer , and he always said Chekhov 's plays and stories reminded him of India . |
| 18 | Alison attended Morrison 's Academy and hockey became her consuming interest . |
| 19 | ‘ No politician likes leaving an election campaign in full swing , but Britain 's farmers and fishermen expect me to do the job I was appointed for and I am not prepared to take the risk of measures hostile to the UK getting through because I am not there , ’ said Mr Curry , who is defending a 17,000 Conservative majority . |
| 20 | Bakatin also announced , in a sign of the changes , that he was overruling KGB objections and would allow Oleg Gordievsky 's wife and children to join him in London , where he had defected in 1985 [ see pp. 34004-05 ] . |
| 21 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 22 | In an interview , Mclean claimed Burgess had jumped on Mrs McMullen 's head and McLean said she had kicked her and jumped on her stomach . |
| 23 | The theologian R.C. Moberly 's Atonement and Personality helps us , I believe , with the analogy of a human family . |
| 24 | Throughout her ordeal , Flora 's spirit and character endeared her to everyone who met her until she was released under the Act of Indemnity in 1747 . |
| 25 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 26 | Er , Wi Wilson , er , did not seem to allow his father 's wit and criticism to get him as much as Freud had er , suggested . |
| 27 | Sent by Iago , coming upon Othello just after the murder , Emilia 's love and integrity cause her to denounce her husband , even at the cost of her own life . |
| 28 | Coleridge 's silence and solitude gives him an immediate affinity with this frost , and his work of meditation is also an unseen action . |
| 29 | We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas . |
| 30 | But Anselm would have found much in Lanfranc 's letters and practice to guide him . |