Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [adv] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAN JONES : What about putting ourselves under somebody else 's protection ? |
| 2 | People have complained — is this a health service problem ? is this a local authority problem ? and that is an acknowledgement of the fact that you can match just about anyone you can find in one service 's bed , with someone in someone else 's service 's bed . |
| 3 | We might admit , then , so far as that goes , that you can conceive of its hurting you in someone else 's knee ( a new sense of ‘ His knee is hurting me ’ ) but you can not conceive of its hurting anyone else there . |
| 4 | But should your ferret escape , become hungry and — once its muzzle has rotted through — enjoy itself in someone else 's hen roost , there is no way that you can claim it back . |
| 5 | Shostakovich obviously had good reason for these references , but they are to music so well-known that I worry about finding them in someone else 's piece , even a composer of the supreme integrity of Shostakovich . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello ? ’ queries my mother-in-law 's voice uncertainly , not knowing how to announce herself in someone else 's house . |
| 7 | take your boots off ( if indoors ) and rub your feet with your hands or warm them on someone else 's tummy ( this really sorts out your friends and do n't worry you ca n't catch verrucae this way ) . |
| 8 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 9 | Yes , it was nice to sit and eat my lunch in peace , with no-one to interrupt me but it is not nice every morning to ‘ bye ’ and leave him in someone else 's care . |
| 10 | If somebody 's written it about somebody else 's biography , okay , it 's auto if it 's , you know . |
| 11 | A Brownie who stops the ball with her hands must then try to roll it between someone else 's legs , but she must not move from the circle . |
| 12 | I do n't know what you put it in somebody else 's pocket for , you 've got pockets of your own . |
| 13 | ‘ It tends to make you over-tolerant , because , you know , you can think yourself into someone else 's point of view . |
| 14 | For some of it you try to put yourself in somebody else 's shoes and write a story about that . |