Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hide fights Louisville lip James Pritchard as the top fight on the undercard to Nigel Benn 's defence of his WBC super-midddleweight title against Nicky Piper . |
| 2 | NIGEL BENN 'S defence of his WBC super-middleweight crown , the first of two steps towards a lucrative return with Chris Eubank next spring , will be against Welshman Nicky Piper at Alexandra Palace on December 12 . |
| 3 | U2 's rehearsals for their US stadium tour drew thousands of fans to the parking lot of Hershey Stadium , Pennsylvania . |
| 4 | He had reportedly criticized the kingdom 's policies in his Friday prayer sermons , opposed the presence of US troops , and put his name to a collective letter by a group of Moslem clerics to the country 's supreme theologian , Sheikh Abdel-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz , expressing opposition to the US-sponsored Middle East peace conference which had begun in Madrid in October 1991 . |
| 5 | Now our London art market correspondent talks to Christophe Lázar about the changes in the intervening months and Colnaghi 's plans for its Paris gallery . |
| 6 | Those that do , claims the board 's researchers at its Berkley Nuclear Laboratories , will rupture before producing a blockage of the coolant channel sufficiently severe to impair coolability . |
| 7 | Madrid was driven by its competition with the more advanced States of north-western Europe ( and shortly to be overwhelmed by the Napoleonic wars ) , and failed to draw salutary lessons from Britain 's loss of its North American colonies . |
| 8 | John Buddle , a mine inspector and owner 's agent with whom Davy had consulted , wrote to Davy on 1 June , 1816 : ‘ I am convinced that with the happy invention of the safe lamp large proportions of the coal mines of the empire will be rendered available , which otherwise might have remained inaccessible . ’ |
| 9 | An example of the application of Foucault to the ‘ urban ’ sphere is Dear and Wolch 's research on what Giddens would no doubt call the ‘ sequestrated region ’ of North American inner cities . |
| 10 | Rather more fun and doubtless just as fruitful was the Odyssey Theatre Company 's research for their Macbeth : six weeks spent with the support of the Scottish Arts Council on the Indonesian island of Bali . |
| 11 | I could hear my wife , Sharon , in the driver 's seat of our Peugeot 405 but I could not see her because my eyes were clouded with blood . |
| 12 | He had no intention of staying by Hitler 's side in his Berlin bunker and instead set off for his own headquarters . |
| 13 | ‘ Like Ash 's Sorceress in her In-Pace . ’ |
| 14 | When the Swiss police agreed to tap Lasser 's telephone in his Zurich apartment , Syrian George stayed on in Switzerland to sit on the wire while Sami Jafaar and other members of his clan kept watch to identify Lasser 's Arab visitors . |
| 15 | And this will make Pooh 's inference from Eeyore 's sigh to what Eeyore believes safer than his inference from Rabbit 's words to what Rabbit believes : because that inference does depend on Rabbit 's wanting to tell Pooh the truth , whereas , as we 've remarked , he may in fact be lying . |
| 16 | The Bush administration 's revision of its Indo-China policy was designed to forestall a possible congressional rebellion over the issue . |
| 17 | The Bush administration 's revision of its Indo-China policy was partly designed to forestall a potential congressional rebellion over the issue . |
| 18 | Afterwards , it was alleged , the victims were placed in the children 's brothels in which Cairo abounded . |
| 19 | In summer it must have been bright and baking , but in wet autumn slate-grey sky lay like another box against its repeating panes , in which lines of little round lights were reflected , like Tinkerbell 's fairylights in her Never-Never-Land . |
| 20 | pupil at the Misses Nettingall 's establishment with whom David , while a pupil at Dr Strong 's , falls in love . |
| 21 | HP has decided not to take Sun 's move on its Apollo base ( UX No 394 ) , lying down and has decided to retaliate in kind . |
| 22 | Paul Jeromack 's article in your April number on the sale of Brenda Lady Cook 's Antonello da Messina to the Louvre contained a number of inaccuracies , some of which Lady Cook has asked me to correct . |
| 23 | I was greatly encouraged by Herb Nahapiet 's article in your May issue , introducing the research done at Bath . |
| 24 | Joan 's meeting with her Edward will be , unless I am much mistaken , joy indeed ! |
| 25 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |
| 26 | They all turned to look at her , but it was Harry 's reaction for which Madeleine was watching . |
| 27 | A CPR guidebook of 1897 expressed the company 's pride in its Windsor Station : |
| 28 | We asked about music , we asked about food , we asked about holidays , we asked family , we asked about , what was Ja , Mandy 's questions to you Jane ? |
| 29 | Following April 's revolution in which King Birendra had been forced to accede to protesters ' demands for major political reforms [ see pp. 37362-63 ] , the new interim government ( headed by Nepali Congress president Krishna Prasad Bhattarai ) moved to consolidate its achievements during May . |
| 30 | British officers on the Defence Adviser 's staff in our Washington Embassy , and in exchange appointments at US military establishments , see the products of the vast US research and development programmes and become wedded to them to the detriment of British-developed equivalents . |