Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pron] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had leaflets printed and pushed them through everybody 's door to explain what was happening . |
| 2 | I half expected him to say they stole them from somebody 's garden but … |
| 3 | Yet , no matter how far one travels I doubt if one ever really gets to know people , or places , not as one imagines them in one 's mind . |
| 4 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |
| 5 | The miracle of anorexia is that this wish can be fulfilled : one does not have to grow up ; one does not have to become a woman , even in the biological sense ; one can reject all foreign substances , for which food is a metaphor , and subject them to one 's will . |
| 6 | The process of recovery involves making an inventory of one 's previous wrongs and defects of characters , admitting them to one 's self , to God and to another human being and making amends to those one has harmed , except when to do so would injure them or others . |
| 7 | Continual training in the basic movements and adapting them to one 's own requirements is required . |
| 8 | But if they 're sick I mean there 's no way I can take them to anybody 's house . |
| 9 | The younger generation know her as everybody 's mum in Blind Date and Surprise Surprise . |
| 10 | The younger generation know her as everybody 's mum in Blind Date and Surprise Surprise . |
| 11 | He was so loving and in a moment I had bared my few troubles , and felt it almost criminal to worry him with one 's little difficulties . |
| 12 | You an me , the artists , we 're doing it for no-one 's eyes but our own , are n't we ? but while fundamental , as far as the book 's concerned , this is a minor point . |
| 13 | Those slightly better off could organize an annual requiem for past guild members at All Souls ' — 2 November — or on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of their main benefactor , and it was quite in order for bequests to be made to the guild in addition to the contributions given to it during one 's lifetime . |
| 14 | Well you nicked it off someone 's car though . |
| 15 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 16 | I raised £18 and I 've since raised £4,000 , but that 's nothing really when you compare it with someone 's life . |
| 17 | Right , what I 'd like you to do , is oh , Andrew perhaps I could show it with your 's . |
| 18 | For example , does one appropriate property for the purposes of theft when one touches it , takes it , or puts it in one 's bag ? |
| 19 | And then stored it in somebody 's coal house . |
| 20 | Must have found it in someone 's file . ’ |
| 21 | At the very least one owes it to one 's family to do this , as well as to oneself and even one 's current employer . |
| 22 | The children sit around the room , while the person who is chosen to start takes a cushion and places it on someone 's lap . |
| 23 | I had seen it on someone 's face recently . |
| 24 | Go on chuck it on someone 's head , go on . |
| 25 | Or you could leave it on it 's own , could n't you cos it 's got the white things like dad 's |
| 26 | Do n't buy it on it 's own when they go wrong costs a lot of money ! |
| 27 | There were fresh candles to buy , the hire — or outright purchase — of mourning cloaks ; the poor had again to be invited — it was considered worthy and laudable to remember them at one 's death — and had to receive a further portion of the largesse exhibited at the funeral . |