Example sentences of "king ['s] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 2 | In Alcuin 's opinion , part of Eanbald 's trouble arose because he received the king 's enemies and protected their possessions and because he was involved in seizing the lands of others . |
| 3 | In England the rapid increase in the amount of diplomatic correspondence from the beginning of the sixteenth century accelerated the development of the secretary of state , originally an officer of the royal household who drafted the king 's letters and kept his private seal . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you know it 's an offence to lie down on the King 's highway and make yourself a danger to passing traffic ? ’ |
| 5 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |
| 6 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |
| 7 | On Henry 's death , therefore , the evangelicals were dominant at court , and they further consolidated their position when Edward Seymour overturned the dead king 's will and appointed himself Lord Protector Somerset . |
| 8 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 9 | the Egyptians moved the 48 m ship to a purpose-built museum alongside the King 's pyramid and put her on display last year . |
| 10 | One further return to Carolingian precedent occurred at the very end of Louis VII 's reign , when coinage from the king 's mints and bearing his image began to circulate outside the royal demesne for the first time since the late ninth century . |
| 11 | Anselm , glad to escape from the secular snares into a world he understood , refused the king 's demand and gave his proffered £500 to the poor . |
| 12 | ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe . |