Example sentences of "be [noun prp] [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am King Stephen 's sheriff of Shropshire , ’ said Hugh , ‘ and in pursuit of that same errant saint . |
| 2 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 3 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 4 | Greetings cards range includes puffins , landscapes , Edinburgh and wildflowers. 1994 Scotland Diary , 1994 calendars are Colin Baxter 's Scotland , Scottish Lochs , Scotland Appointment Calendar , Edinburgh , Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
| 5 | Are Colonel Mortimer 's men here ? ’ |
| 6 | But apart from racing , rugby and golf fans businessmen are Orient Air 's staple . |
| 7 | Arthur 's Miller 's plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman are now regarded as virtual classics , and so are Tennessee William 's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire . |
| 8 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 9 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 10 | Alan Wheat has been Kansas City 's congressman since 1982 . |
| 11 | Dexter remembered she had once been David Parkin 's lover . |
| 12 | Amongst the most celebrated are Beatrix Potter 's Hill Top in the Lake District ; Bateman 's , Kipling 's Jacobean house in East Sussex ; Lamb House in Rye , beloved by Henry James , but immortalised by E.F . |
| 13 | I felt like that there was a … a more concrete and unifying decision , that … that decision was what are Dr Carrington 's chances of being alive in any sense whatsoever , in having any human experiences , away from the hospital and away from this ventilator ? |
| 14 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 15 | The other laureates are South Africa 's Archbishop Desmond Tutu ; Northern Ireland 's Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan-Maguire ; Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina ; Ross Daniels representing Amnesty International and Donna Kyle Anderton , representing the Quaker organisation the American Friends Service Committee . |
| 16 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 17 | Solo lute-music at this period of its highest popularity was quite international ; among the most important of the numerous published lute-books — the manuscript collections are innumerable — are Sebastian Ochsenkun 's Tabulaturbuch ( Heidelberg , 1558 ) , the four books of Giacomo Gorzanis ( Venice , 1561–4 ) , Galilei 's ( Rome , 1563 ) , the four published by Matthäus Waisselius ( Frankfurt-on-Oder , 1573–92 ) , William Barley 's A new Booke of Tabliture , an instruction book for orpharion and bandora besides the lute ( London , 1596 ) , and Robert Dowland 's Varietie of Lutelessons ( London , 1610 ) containing 42 pieces by composers ‘ as well beyond the Seas as of our own country ’ . |
| 18 | The dramatic feature of the day had been Manuel Caballeros 's climb from 5th to equal 1st place . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're Duke Michael 's men , and they 're coming to take the King back to Strelsau for the coronation . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 're Eddie Ash 's sister , are n't you ? |
| 21 | You 're Mr Craven 's son , the little boy with the crooked back . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're Mr Evans 's friend . |
| 23 | ‘ So you 're Paddy Byrne 's daughter , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're Mrs Chester 's sister-in-law ? ’ |
| 25 | You 're Elliot Manderley 's boy . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Dids't thoo say we 're Lady Lassiter 's faither and brother ? ’ |
| 27 | Jeanette leaned toward her and said close to her ear , ‘ You 're Chrissie Ashdown 's sister , are n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but they 're Micky Banks 's chums … ’ |
| 29 | Ken Bates , the Chelsea chairman , had been given until tomorrow to pay £22.85 million to Cabra Estates , the property company who are Stamford Bridge 's landlords , as the independent valuation put on the ground . |
| 30 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |