Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may help to increase the bladder 's capacity . |
| 2 | This will help them to become sensitive to the bladder 's warning signals . |
| 3 | Elgin 's wood |
| 4 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 5 | Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops . |
| 6 | We both knew of Napoleon 's retreat . |
| 7 | Hahnemann and his homoeopathy had already gained considerable prestige from his success in treating the typhus epidemic which swept into Europe in the wake of Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow in 1813 . |
| 8 | The large leather-covered trunk at the rear ( here displayed with an equestrian figure of the emperor placed upon it ) contained Napoleon 's bedding . |
| 9 | It was this continuous resistance , feeble though it often was , which broke Napoleon 's doctrine of maximum concentration in the attempt to solve the contradictory demands of operation and occupation in a hostile countryside . |
| 10 | The British also had financial interests , were the principal users of the canal , and remembered Napoleon 's threat to India . |
| 11 | In 1793 Britain set up a Board of Agriculture to promote the growing of potatoes to counter Napoleon 's threat to starve this country into submission . |
| 12 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 13 | Napoleon 's portrait is on the obverse and , on the other side is the Arc de Triomphe , the focal point of Paris 's streets . |
| 14 | Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War . |
| 15 | With Napoleon 's invasion of Spain it collapsed . |
| 16 | Both themes were present in Napoleon 's invasion for he hoped to strike a blow against Britain 's control of India by cutting the short overland route across the isthmus from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea , and also to develop new trading opportunities for France in the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 17 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 18 | The piece , which has not been traced , told the story of Napoleon 's exile and death on St Helena ; its butt and villain was the English governor of the island , Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1769–1844 ) , and the characters included Napoleon 's physician , Dr Francesco Antommarchi ( 1780–1838 ) . |
| 19 | It was the belief of Chaptal , Napoleon 's Minister , that the attempt to create a colonial market came too late . |
| 20 | Was it the last act of a popular drama begun at Aranjuez and thwarted by Napoleon 's desertion of Ferdinand and protection of Godoy , a revolution of disappointed vengeance , a revolution directed against Godoy 's creatures in the provincial administrations who now followed the French ? |
| 21 | Napoleon 's dormeuse , number 389 , built by Goeting during April 1815 . |
| 22 | [ 6 ] If we wished to test a new theory about Napoleon 's allergy to snuff , say , it would not make sense to examine look-alikes of Napoleon 's clothing . |
| 23 | She revived the house , filling it with the best Paris could offer in people and le bon goût , in the tradition established there by her great predecessor Pauline Borghese , who employed Napoleon 's architect Fontaine to remodel the interior ( and sold the house to the Duke of Wellington ) . |
| 24 | [ 6 ] If we wished to test a new theory about Napoleon 's allergy to snuff , say , it would not make sense to examine look-alikes of Napoleon 's clothing . |
| 25 | The Emperor 's veterans , fretting against the injustices of Bourbon France , had welcomed Napoleon 's return and flocked to the Eagles . |
| 26 | The midday sun glinted against the bronze bas-reliefs of famous battle scenes on Napoleon 's column as Chantal steered the Harley-Davidson through the place de l'Opéra and turned down the busy rue de la Paix . |
| 27 | waged by Britain , Spain , and Portugal against Napoleon 's army in the Iberian peninsula . |
| 28 | This was the Emperor Napoleon 's Army of the North and it marched towards the waiting Dutch , British and Prussian forces . |
| 29 | That had been the first news this night had brought the Duke — that Napoleon 's army had branched off the Brussels road to drive the Prussians eastwards away from the British . |
| 30 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |