Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , at the same time , he could not bear the feeling that , if the career tides were receding from him , then his family 's response of withdrawing too , into their own remedies and inevitable independence , might leave him quite beached like an old wreck on the shore . |
| 2 | RACING tipster The Squire defied the Pope 's ban on betting yesterday and prepared his weekly column — for the Catholic church 's newspaper . |
| 3 | Paper states that such facilities , can make a child 's experience of writing more like that of a real writer " . |
| 4 | In England , however , the national side reflects broader patterns of the southeast 's hegemony by playing only at Wembley , its 70- year-old , privately-owned , north London base . |
| 5 | HP pooh-poohs Sun 's programme for focusing solely on discounts and wanting to move Domain users to ‘ ageing members of Sun 's product family ’ then on to Sparcstation 10s in two step process that would require going first to Solaris 1.0 and then to Solaris 2.0 . |
| 6 | Women 's pleasure in viewing then is high on the agenda in recent feminist work on film . |
| 7 | It will be odd if he does not exercise the incoming chairman 's prerogative of dumping as much rubbish as possible into the accounts . |
| 8 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 9 | For Beccaria 's conception of punishing purely in proportion to harm done failed to distinguish between ‘ crimes ’ committed intentionally , under duress or provocation , or even by accident . |
| 10 | After all , he was later to applaud Hardy 's poetry for having precisely , ‘ the insides ’ . |
| 11 | The winner 's benefit from responding appropriately to such a signal is that it does not risk injury by escalating the conflict into a real fight when it need not have done so . |
| 12 | ‘ The issue of perception can be addressed most fruitfully in Auerbach 's work by taking precisely this oscillation between the mask and the face and examining it in terms of pose ( the key indicator for the relation with the viewer ) and in terms of paint ’ . |
| 13 | Magwitch 's alias on returning illegally to England . |
| 14 | She had inherited her mother 's gift of speaking simply and directly , yet still being challenging and thought provoking . |
| 15 | I thank God for David 's gift for expressing so clearly what is evidently on the Father 's heart for us . |
| 16 | And the Bank of England 's ease in selling so many gilt stocks early yesterday is a reminder of just how great the budget deficit remains and how much more public borrowing must follow — taking cash that might otherwise have bought shares . |
| 17 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 18 | Colleagues , G M B Scotland welcomes and congratulates the Central Executive 's initiative in bringing forward the of this Congress the big important debate of this Congress between ourselves and the Transport and General Workers ' Union at some time in the future . |
| 19 | ‘ Your friend has so much talent and she 's so … ’ he waved his hands as if trying to snatch words from the air , ‘ … she has this gift of firing one 's imagination without talking too much . |
| 20 | ‘ I know you will , honey , ’ she murmured , fondly brushing the pale blonde curls from the child 's brow before walking slowly back to rejoin her friend . |
| 21 | He would not have gone to Munich himself , he said , but he praised Chamberlain 's courage for acting differently . |
| 22 | The exception is the teacher who dissipates other people 's goodwill by edging further into a personally disorganized life or by losing any real sense of what is required of a teacher . |
| 23 | It was in this atmosphere of craven piety that Lillian Hellman , the playwright who had carte blanche in Hollywood to write what pictures she liked , administered a cold douche to the nation 's conscience by stating unequivocally that she refused to inform on anybody else but herself . |
| 24 | Consequently we 've been greatly concerned by the government 's delay in bringing forward this legislation which was adopted in draft on the twenty third of June nineteen ninety three and became a council directive on the sixth of December nineteen ninety three . |
| 25 | Our offer was made promptly and proudly yesterday to honour Lamb 's bravery in ripping aside a cover-up which is shielding cricket cheats . |
| 26 | The Poles were well aware that they were a kitten between two cats , but they preferred to persist in Piłsudski 's strategy of keeping both Germans and Russians at arm 's length while trusting to Western capital and military alliances . |
| 27 | Here is Good Taste 's guide to planning ahead for your festive feast . |
| 28 | On the other hand , there were the numerous authors who attempted to trump Conan Doyle 's ace by having extremely unsupermen heroes . |
| 29 | He made a brief , unsuccessful return , but his future was overseas : Lisbon first , and then San Sebastian , where the club 's policy of using only Basque players ( recently broken by the arrival of John Aldridge from Liverpool ) limited his use of the cheque book . |
| 30 | The government of the majority Russian- and Ukrainian-populated " Soviet Socialist Dnestr Republic " was unhappy at what it saw as the Moldovan government 's policy of drawing closer to Romania and imposing Romanian culture and language on the whole republic . |