Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This even brought a ghostly chuckle ; Dr Neil 's being the Master again was enough to bring McAllister back , she thought , if only to provoke him to further jokes . |
| 2 | Andy 's being really horrible to you , he , he poured the coff specially for washing up |
| 3 | He hinted at the unlikelihood of Jack Pertwee 's being married that day and was inwardly amused to observe that this piece of information — the fact that Carter would be deprived of his cold chicken and champagne — distressed him more than Hatton 's death . |
| 4 | A major factor that contributed to Tip 's being top man with the bag was the philosophy and teachings of his father , Tip Senior . |
| 5 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
| 6 | Chair , can I just help you here recently , because we 've had a recent case ourselves erm , this is an ironic twist to this , because Councillor Patten 's being writing to the County on Highway and Traffic issues recently and sending us a copy , and it 's stunned us a little bit , because normally they would write to us direct , but there 's a sting in this because we do n't know whether we 're supposed to respond to him now , or the county . |
| 7 | It appeared that she 'd been right about Harry Martin 's being behind the attempts to intimidate her . |
| 8 | my Martin 's being horrible |
| 9 | he says he 's Martin 's being horrible |
| 10 | Or was she relying on the unlikelihood of Tom 's being able to defend his own corner effectively ? |
| 11 | As well as prophesying the triumph of ‘ the Saints ’ and the destruction of their enemies , Anna also declared God 's displeasure at Oliver Cromwell 's being made lord protector on 16 December 1653 . |
| 12 | reminds the reader of that moment when the shadow falls ‘ Between the potency/ And the existence ’ , or of Tiresias 's being trapped unfulfilled in sexual desire , bearing witness to all the ritualistically patterned couplings of history , ‘ throbbing between two lives ’ . |
| 13 | He goes Helena Julian 's being sick . |
| 14 | ‘ And Robin 's being a bit eccentric . ’ |
| 15 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 16 | The power of the sacrament is attested to not just by stories of miracles in which the devout see Christ himself present in the Host , but in terms of inward experience " wherof we haue knowynge onely by beleue with ynneforthe " [ ynneforthe : inwardly ] and the meditation ends with a prayer for the experience of the healing presence of Christ : Such cultivation of an inner experience of the reality of Christ 's being by means of affective meditation on his life is a discipline taken for granted in the writings of all the mystics to be discussed , despite their differences in emphasis . |
| 17 | He did n't think it was a case of God 's being vindictive , more a case of rules being rules and God having to administer them , like a caning head , and where there was Adultery there was always a Death , that was the way it was . |
| 18 | It 's no good trusting vaguely in your luck , in Providence or God 's being kind to you . |
| 19 | The Christian belief in God 's being as a Trinity of Father , Son and Holy Spirit was traditionally interpreted by the Church Fathers who formulated theology , as an interplay of power , wisdom and love . |
| 20 | Its centre lies in the recognition of what impedes the sight of love , whereas Scale 2 is occupied with facilitating recognition of the nature of God 's being — love — in man . |
| 21 | Sara 's being a brick . ’ |
| 22 | Neumann also refers to the Ländler 's being ‘ in three slow beats , reminding us that many Haydn minuets are rooted in folksong , ‘ which itself is unhurried ’ . |
| 23 | Usually religious people tend to see these as different , Sri Ramana 's being an experience of enlightenment and awareness of the Oneness of being , whilst St Francis 's conveyed a sense of communion with God — a sense of a Presence revealing itself . |
| 24 | The mere fact of Ryan 's being in her cottage ? |
| 25 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 26 | What would Dorigo 's be ? |
| 27 | Harry Saltzman , the producer of the James Bond pictures , objected to both Charles Hawtrey 's being called Agent 001 and to the name Charlie Bind . |
| 28 | Tommy 's being taken out to the car . |
| 29 | Devlin Parnham was a scheming man and there was little chance of Richie 's being informed of Maggie 's exact mission to Spain . |
| 30 | I was not sure whether I owed that to Gwenellen , the universal awe of Old Red , or Aline 's being away . |