Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he recognise that dialogue is not criticism by Ministers of everyone else 's proposals without making any positive contribution themselves ? |
| 2 | The second task was the interception of everyone else 's messages around the world and , where possible , decoding them . |
| 3 | As much as he could be aware of someone else 's problems , his own were the ones that preoccupied him most . |
| 4 | You do n't do so on the basis of someone else 's plans , ’ Mr Baker told the US Senate finance committee . |
| 5 | This assumes , of course , that B 's death was not the consequence of A 's vengeance-magic and that B was not a witch but the innocent victim of someone else 's witchcraft . |
| 6 | So it was basically my completely wrecked versions of someone else 's things . |
| 7 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 8 | Hannen Swaffer — revered almost as the Bernard Shaw of left-wing journalism — used to blow in and write his piece on the corner of someone else 's desk . |
| 9 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 10 | A person in possession of someone else 's cheque book and guarantee card forged the owner 's signature and gave the cheque to the plaintiffs , supporting it by the guarantee card . |
| 11 | Because it could n't wait until lunchtime and that , that 's perfectly understandable because he wants to feel in control of what 's going to happen to some degree , rather than just be at the mercy of someone else 's position . |
| 12 | The first is to make sure that everyone who gets involved in the taking of someone else 's vehicle is made criminally liable for the consequences . |
| 13 | ‘ If the bank is the custodian of someone else 's money then it is aiding and abetting a crime . |
| 14 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
| 15 | Still others were suggested by a casual reading of someone else 's research paper in the train home one evening , or by a talk heard almost by chance at a conference . |
| 16 | Can you please advise what steps should be taken when registering a company name to ensure that subsequently there is no embarrassment over the use of someone else 's trade mark ? |
| 17 | Instead of a nice clear photographic view of the station , I now faced the black uninformative window of someone else 's roomette . |
| 18 | Thus autonomy is lost or renounced either if someone is coerced into thinking/acting against their will , or if a person is treated perhaps willingly — as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires or ends . |
| 19 | Perhaps , therefore , a distinction should be drawn between allowing oneself voluntarily , and where there is no danger to oneself , to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's needs , and being treated as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires . |
| 20 | Again , it might be argued that there can be nothing wrong for a person voluntarily to allow themselves to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires . |
| 21 | There was no bell to sound my coming or going , no wearing out of someone else 's carpet and electricity ; no animal to be disturbed from sleep . |
| 22 | The erotic quality had drained from them and they seemed like sepia prints in an album of someone else 's relations . |
| 23 | Disjuncts act as ways of indicating your evaluation of someone else 's view which you are representing . |
| 24 | Indeed , the very idea of resistance is generally excluded from social-control theories , because the deviant group is perceived to be powerless , forever the object of someone else 's control , never the subject of its own thoughts and actions . |
| 25 | He licked his lips and tasted the salt tang of someone else 's blood . |
| 26 | The words of someone else 's arguments are very unlikely just to fit straight into and so create a structure and argument for your own essay . |
| 27 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 28 | Through the wall came the murmur of someone else 's radio . |
| 29 | For some reason I remembered , at this moment , a second set of instructions for entering this reef , photocopied out of someone else 's copy of Heart and Stone 's A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean and the Bahamas . |
| 30 | The imaginary and timeless cruelties of the Chinese are relished as they frighten us , while the drama of the Hungarians is a disturbing intrusion of someone else 's reality that , glimpsed on the television screen , is not entirely unlike our own : worried-looking men in square-shouldered , belted coats ; forlorn children . |