Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see that Cordelia 's judgement of them was correct : As they taunt her for her disobedience she replies , ‘ Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides ; /Who covers faults , at last with shame derides ’ ( 280f . ) . |
| 2 | Reviewers who took it all too seriously said Corman 's movie and Nicholson 's part in it was bad film-making , bad acting , bad taste and quite undeserving of consideration . |
| 3 | It happened soon after the start , but the négligée helped , and Dinah 's entry in it was glorious . |
| 4 | However , we must remember what we earlier quoted Hegel as saying : that the other person 's attitude towards me is important for my sense of self-identity . |
| 5 | Relationships of this kind , including most of those between normal adults , give a place to emotions such as resentment , gratitude , forgiveness or disappointment which are only appropriate when we believe that someone 's behaviour towards us was conscious and intentional . |
| 6 | Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community . |
| 7 | It rained on April Fool 's Day like it was intent on making wets of all of us ‘ on the just and unjust alike , ’ observed Derek Foster without ( gentleman that he is ) further categorisation . |
| 8 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 9 | the problems and Christian Aid 's approach to them were similar in secondary and primary schools . |
| 10 | Proof of a demand by the plaintiff for the return of the goods met by a refusal of the defendant is one of the common ways of producing evidence of conversion for it tends to show that the defendant 's detention of them is wrongful . |