Example sentences of "'s [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Any astrologer worth her salt would have predicted this man 's presence and told her to steer clear . |
| 32 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 33 | ‘ This crap , ’ Laura took the book from Rex 's fingers and struck it with the back of her hand . |
| 34 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 35 | He just hat time to turn , plant one hand on Pietro Miletti 's chest and push him back , indignantly protesting . |
| 36 | The wounded bird plummeted to earth like a dive-bomber , its beak piercing G. F. Westerby 's chest and pinning him to the ground . |
| 37 | So-called from ‘ hak ’ , a species of snake , developing into the term ‘ hagge ’ during the sixteenth century to describe ‘ a succubus who sits on a man 's chest and gives him nightmares ’ . |
| 38 | Shadow National Heritage spokesman Ann Clywd was also pleased with the Government 's plans but warned they must not put pools staff out of work . |
| 39 | According to officers stationed at Darlington , the silent majority now support Mr Thompson 's plans and believe they could even speed response times to house fires in the town . |
| 40 | This whole business of sex education and teaching morality in schools , do you think it is the school 's responsibility or do you think mum and dad ought to play more of a part ? |
| 41 | He was transferred in 1853 to the prefectorate of the Department of the Seine , which included Paris , and he remained there until 1870 ; for the whole of this period he remained the Emperor 's man , charged with executing his master 's projects and doing them quickly . |
| 42 | Then she took the willow twig , laid it across the bull 's withers and secured it in place with a rope tied firmly beneath the soft folds of flesh on the underside of the neck . |
| 43 | When it became known that the Government had said it could not afford to honour Nelson 's wishes and help her out , the tradesmen to whom she still owed money closed in . |
| 44 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |
| 45 | The sale proceeds will be used to pay off Heywood Williams 's debts and give it net cash of £65 million to fund expansion . |
| 46 | Caroline cut the split ends off Meera 's hair but decided she should keep the length . |
| 47 | A strong breeze ruffled Crossley 's hair and made him shiver . |
| 48 | She brushed her mistress 's hair and piled it on top of her head in a cluster of curls , carefully and meticulously arranged to look quite casual . |
| 49 | She swept back a handful of Lucy 's hair and pinned it up , first on one side and then on the other ; but before she 'd reached for the scissors to begin , Charlie 's face appeared around the doorway . |
| 50 | The elder of the body slaves gathered the braided ends of his master 's hair and bound them together with gold wire . |
| 51 | The shapechanger grabbed Chopra 's hair and pulled him off the ground . |
| 52 | In 1872 , Thomas Paterson , another jet worker , came home very drunk , got hold of his wife 's hair and pulled her out of bed . |
| 53 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 54 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 55 | Caroline felt a stir of anger deep within her breast , not at this artless , naïve girl but at Nicolo , Nicolo with his phony morality , his counterfeit Old World manners — his way of finding a woman 's heart and using it to suit his own needs , whether she was eighteen or twenty-four or seventy … |
| 56 | The hardness of Pharaoh 's heart : several times in these chapters God is said to have hardened Pharaoh 's heart and made him obstinate ( 4:21 ; 10:1 ; 20 , 27 ) . |
| 57 | It does not inherit its parent 's heart and remould it into a new ( and possibly improved ) heart . |
| 58 | However the plans have been branded ‘ ludicrous ’ by Southport 2000 , a group set up to help preserve the town 's heritage and restore it to its Victorian splendour . |
| 59 | Another electronic effect , pioneered for this story , and thereafter used in all subsequent Dalek serials , was the Dalek extermination effect-a very simple trick of opening a camera 's aperture too wide , thereby admitting in too much light , swamping the camera 's electronics and causing it to send back to the gallery a negative image . |
| 60 | In fact I still remember ‘ Tiger Smith ’ coming into our dressing-room while I was giving a pre-season captain 's talk and asking him who the hell he was . |