Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Young squeezed Xanthe 's hand encouragingly from across the table while the half-child half-young-woman shivered her way through the dangerous memory . |
| 2 | As she walked into the room she saw Neil 's eyes hard on her , registering her beautiful gown , her carefully dressed hair , and even though the gown was plain she looked like a queen of society in it , she knew , and she wished that she were wearing McAllister 's shabby bottle-green shirtwaister again . |
| 3 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 4 | Yet more thought-provoking is a speech which Gregory puts into Gundovald 's mouth shortly before his death . |
| 5 | Once he did , the man bound Corbett 's hands tightly to the saddlebow and , passing the rope under the horse 's belly , also secured his ankles . |
| 6 | In November 1987 , Silviu Brucan compared Ceauşescu 's rule unfavourably with the 1960s when ‘ the Party could successfully control the mass of the workers because … a turn for the better occurred in the standard of living in almost three million peasants who joined the urban industrial workforce . ’ |
| 7 | And when we seen them , we just bust ourselves laughing , cos they looked so funny with Marie 's hair all over the place and me with this real surprised look on my face . |
| 8 | Viking 's and Rose Marie 's restaurant close to the hotel are also renowned for their excellent value and are favourite haunts with Four Seasons guests . |
| 9 | Er we really wanted to know what your view on erm Sir Nicholas Fairburn 's outburst both in the Commons I suppose and er reported the outburst of his wife on the front page of the Daily Mirror today . |
| 10 | Do you think there 's a danger that the West could undermine Gorbachev 's position particularly with the delicate situation over Lithuania , if it 's not prepared to support moves to try and get tension reduced between the two blocks ? |
| 11 | The JDA annual report of 1989 saw little change in the Soviet military posture in the Far East and its potential threat to Japan , despite President Gorbachev 's announcement earlier in the year that its forces stationed in the Far East would be cut by 120,000 [ see p. 36642 ] . |
| 12 | Like most of Karajan 's judgements , it is rational and soundly based , though it will always disappoint English music-lovers for whom the early 1950s Philharmonia was a high-water mark in the country 's orchestral affairs , matched only by such other brief periods of glory as those enjoyed by Beecham 's LPO and Boult 's BBC SO in the 1930s and the LSO in the Monteux , Kertész , and early Previn years . |
| 13 | The controversy created by the research suddenly put Hector 's dolphin firmly in the public eye . |
| 14 | Calderwood 's departure hard on the heels of Glen Hoddle 's move to Chelsea will leave problems at the back and in midfield for Swindon . |
| 15 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 16 | The fault lay with other clubs who responded to the devastating effectiveness of Arsenal 's attack merely by turning their centre-halves into stoppers , while failing to grasp that a sound defence was only the springboard to attack and not an end in itself . |
| 17 | The PLO 's triumph both in the Arab arena and internationally was underestimated by Jordan and by Israel , which called for new municipal elections in 1976 . |
| 18 | Millionaire Mohamed Al Fayed , the owner of Harrod 's , has offered to pay for Rhys 's treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 19 | Mohamed Al Fayed , owner of Harrod 's , offered to pay for Rhys 's treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | They have been helped along the way by CoastGuard , a treatment for the micro organisms contained in sewage discharged into the sea launched by Chlor Chemicals ' Watercare business last year , and a newspaper story comparing Weston 's beach favourably with a Barbados resort favoured by Princess Diana . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he vowed that he would never cease to give Aethelred advice , and when Charlemagne was so enraged by the assassination of Aethelred in 796 that his Northumbrian gifts were recalled , threats of worse consequences were averted in Alcuin 's view only by his intercession . |
| 22 | Joan McAlpine 's article today on screen violence ( ‘ A hollow hooray for Hollywood ’ ) was not the balanced journalism most of us expect from The Scotsman , but an ill-informed , highly politicised , rant . |
| 23 | Elizabeth Blackwell 's career both as a purist and a medic displayed the new approach to ‘ Christian physiology ’ . |
| 24 | Besides , it 's got Faustina 's hairs all over it . ’ |
| 25 | However , if we look at Valerie 's behaviour just before this in the conversation , it is apparent that actually not all this talk is intended for the baby . |
| 26 | Eddery 's mounts later in the week include Allegan ( Gold Cup ) , Lyric Fantasy ( King 's Stand Stakes ) and So Factual ( Jersey Stakes ) . |
| 27 | But was Edward 's collection still in existence , hidden away somewhere ? |
| 28 | His Cromwellian sympathies were no doubt strengthened by the marriage of the protector 's younger daughter to the Earl of Warwick 's grandson early in 1658 , and not surprisingly he left public life altogether with the restoration of the Commonwealth in 1659 . |
| 29 | Both he and the elder Gabrieli followed in Cavazzoni 's wake also by composing organ Masses . |
| 30 | She sat up very straight and removed Johnny 's hand briskly from her breast . |