Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby can certainly suffer complications if deprived of mother 's milk and it might well be claimed that talk of its missing its mother is a special language-game pointing only to the source of the deprivation , but Singer is certainly not using the phrase with this in mind . |
| 2 | Their remains convey the Elizabethan elegance of Leicester 's building and you can also enjoy the formalized symmetry of the reconstructed Tudor garden . |
| 3 | Clearly the presentation of the winding-up petition is a prima facie indication of a company 's insolvency and it would therefore be wholly inequitable for one creditor to be entitled to enforce his debt to the detriment of the other creditors . |
| 4 | ‘ A man can be dead tired after a week 's work but he can still give his wife a helping hand . |
| 5 | A quarter of a century later , it is a moment she can still picture in her mind 's eye and she can still summon up the painful feelings of rejection , breach of trust and isolation that the break-up of her parents ’ marriage signified to her . |
| 6 | Gabriel 's wings are as silent as those of the barn owl ; he can fly right past the back of your head on a summer 's night and you 'll never know . |
| 7 | When you pick up a round stone now , walk to the dinosaur 's back and you 'll automatically go up and put a piece of roof on . |
| 8 | ‘ The race was n't on Baydon Star 's agenda and we 'll just have to see , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Duncan understood why the old man felt like that , but he was Duncan 's father and he would always be loyal to him . |
| 10 | And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher . |
| 11 | He had enjoyed the workmen 's company but he would also be grateful to get away from the noise of the machines , especially the incessant throbbing of the jackhammers . |
| 12 | IT 'S New Year 's Eve and you can barely look at food , let alone spend another day preparing a mountain of it for tonight 's hungry party guests . |