Example sentences of "[adj] 's [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1259 , Henry III 's seneschal of Gascony — Dreu de Barentin — had been ordered to inquire into feudal tenures in exactly the same manner as Louis IX 's brother , Alphonse de Poitiers , had begun to do in his comté of Toulouse . |
| 2 | It had been hard to convince the Imperial 's sommelier of the necessity for the presence of porter and ginger beer . |
| 3 | I have n't got Q Basic 's supposed to be quite good . |
| 4 | She just said ‘ get out ’ — that was it , ’ he said on Radio 4 's Famous for 15 Minutes programme yesterday . |
| 5 | Athens is in the middle of her golden age ; Pericles is building the Parthenon ; the Gods are on Olympus , and all 's right with the world … |
| 6 | ‘ 'God 's in His Heaven , All 's right with the world ’ , ’ Anne said gaily , and Mabel was shocked . |
| 7 | Hope all 's well with you , and your family . |
| 8 | ‘ When all 's well with the boy , ’ she said , ‘ we will come into our own ! ’ |
| 9 | All 's well at No 10 |
| 10 | Convince me that all 's well between us now — one friendly little kiss would do . ’ |
| 11 | He looked at it quite philosophically , seeing poaching as an irritant but also as an inevitable occurrence ; in headhunting , all 's fair in love and war . |
| 12 | Ah , come on ; all 's fair in love and war , Cameron . |
| 13 | you absolutely get them going off but sometimes you actually want to use all 's fair in love and war also actually use those sort of tactics . |
| 14 | ‘ And all 's fair in friendship and business ! ’ |
| 15 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 16 | I do n't think the bleeding 's bad in itself . |
| 17 | In May 1323 John XXII told Fulk Lestrange , Edward II 's seneschal of Aquitaine , to make peace with Gaston , as he was not responsible for the excesses of his own officers and subjects , who had been provoked and encouraged by his mother . |
| 18 | We know that Edward I 's seneschal of Gascony , John of Havering , was prompt to pay Armagnac 's pension in January 1294 , ordering the constable of Bordeaux to make the payment without delay ‘ as you esteem the king 's honour ’ . |
| 19 | Twenty six for two , and five 's six per eight . |
| 20 | Chase looked horrified but had to keep playing as he was backing Trippy 's solo on So This Is Christmas ( which at one point , I 'll swear , had drifted into Wabash Cannonball-you had to be there ) . |
| 21 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 22 | And she said , he said she said yes that 's cheaper for us . |
| 23 | That 's cheaper from the chemist . |
| 24 | Er except there 's a day of action but it 's right that 's right into November now so you can hear about that . |
| 25 | That 's right you do that 's right about eight pounds or eight pounds fifty a pound . |
| 26 | That 's right of course . |
| 27 | that 's right of course |
| 28 | aye that 's right of course that 's right |
| 29 | That 's right of course |
| 30 | with a single , oh , that 's right with a single project on and we just |