Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was my idea as much as Jeff 's that I went with him . ’ |
| 2 | And I was in last week both Saturday 's before I came here , and we went through we 'd achieved all targets |
| 3 | Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals . |
| 4 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 5 | Blanche tiptoed over and remembered the face from the photograph of Tatyana 's that she had borrowed . |
| 6 | You can do some of Richard 's that I 'm supposed |
| 7 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 8 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
| 9 | An interesting warning can be gathered from Pooley 's that remaining in such an area for more than one minute risks possible harm from radiation . |
| 10 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 11 | I lost that job at Miss Havisham 's because of you . |
| 12 | I 'm continuing , this month and next , with the 16-bar guitar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day . |
| 13 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 14 | And he uses a very large orchestra of 36 players not only to play sinfonie and ritornelli more substantial than Peri 's but for dramatic effect , as in the sudden change of tone-colour when Orpheus fatally looks backward . |
| 15 | These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves . |
| 16 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
| 17 | The strange boy 's eyes seemed to penetrate so deeply into Willie 's that he felt sure he could read his thoughts . |
| 18 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 19 | It was no fault of Harry 's that he had been mistakenly put in the care of such people , although there was nothing to be said against the Pritchetts — a decent , hard-working family — other than their class . |
| 20 | I thought I thought you were going to get one on your desk , one like Jed 's that hums all the time . |
| 21 | Suspicion had been his watchword and perhaps Miss Labrooy 's as well . |
| 22 | In the heady fire of consummation Gina knew that the aching loneliness which had dogged her throughout her life was finally ended , her own desire rising to match Rune 's as their mutual need drowned them in the remorselessly rising tide of satisfaction . |
| 23 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 24 | Norman on his wall has a a a list of er theoretical waitings for the different specialists at Orpington hospital and presumably he 's got one beside it for Queen Mary 's as well . |
| 25 | Coventry 's goal difference is so much better than Luton 's that the margin is more like four points . |
| 26 | Erm I like Marion 's because of the the colours in it but I did n't I did n't really like Fiona 's because I did n't think it was vivid enough . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 28 | Owing to the terrible destruction of scores , the only dramatic work of Monteverdi 's that we know between those of 1607–8 and the last two Venetian operas is a peculiar experiment ‘ in genere rappresentativo ’ , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , performed in the Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice in 1624 . |
| 29 | Clarke had also seemed fortunate not to concede a penalty when he wrapped his legs round Wallace 's as the Leeds striker broke clear through the middle on to Strachan 's clever return pass after only 16 minutes . |
| 30 | Now I have to be careful what I say about Lady Thatcher 's because of the laws of libel and also I do n't know who 's written which pieces but it 's known she 's had help you see . |