Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] for [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After all , he was later to applaud Hardy 's poetry for having precisely , ‘ the insides ’ . |
| 3 | I thank God for David 's gift for expressing so clearly what is evidently on the Father 's heart for us . |
| 4 | He would not have gone to Munich himself , he said , but he praised Chamberlain 's courage for acting differently . |
| 5 | ( Charles had developed a new theory about the director 's passion for working so hard . |
| 6 | He began to take Dad 's life for granted again . |
| 7 | Injected , catalysed , with 24-valves apiece and an individual coil on each plug to speed the spark , the 2-litre 150bhp and the 2.5-litre 192bhp engines enhance the company 's reputation for building arguably the smoothest ‘ 6 ’ s in the business . |
| 8 | This , in itself , ought to quieten speculation about a Loch Ness monster ; the water 's reputation for healing clearly belongs to ancient traditions , and when a place so powerfully atmospheric generates one legend , it is surely capable of throwing up several more . |
| 9 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |