Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the loop of the rope on your volunteer 's right arm and tell him to place an arm in his pocket . |
| 2 | The food was impeccably tasteful , wine excellent , speeches fine : undeniably last was best with Sue Solomon dressed like an exuberant garden , released from her barrister 's black and white reminding us of DameJanet 's odd stress when asking us ( long ago of course ) to give three cheers for Mrs Gandhi ‘ Somerville 's first woman Prime Minister ’ — Sue added ‘ I sincerely trust that Somervillians of the future will never have to drink a toast to Somerville 's first male P.M. ! ’ |
| 3 | Bel-Hathor called a convocation of all the realm 's greatest mages and instructed them to guard Ulthuan 's eastern approaches . |
| 4 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 5 | I patted Armstrong 's stubbly radiator and promised him a good clean-out . |
| 6 | ‘ They may seem Mordor-made ’ , he explained in the letters column , ‘ because of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar 's — uncovering society 's hypocritical filth and throwing it back in its teeth . |
| 7 | there is a similar teleology present in Marx 's historical materialism that says there are a series of economic modes of production that societies must pass through until socialism is reached , when the economic contradictions of all previous modes are resolved Lukács borrows the structure of Marx 's economic argument and applies it to the process of knowledge/consciousness/ideology , supporting his own argument with Marx 's economic theory . |
| 8 | The Confederation of British Industry stepped forward with a plan that practically doubled the sum to be spent by the government : £21 billion to rewrite the nation 's economic geography and save it from catastrophe . |
| 9 | The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions . |
| 10 | Later he responds more positively to Vera 's shy advances and embraces her gently but respectfully when they are interrupted by Natalia . |
| 11 | He carried her easily to Uncle Philip 's armed chair and settled her down , drawing the electric fire near to her on its cord . |
| 12 | Breaking off a stout twig , he curled a foot under the window 's lower edge and lifted it as high as the rusty hinges would allow . |
| 13 | As Daubney felt that the box reeked of death , Ted decided to bum Aubrey 's old armchair and replace it with another to remove the visible signs of the tragedy . |
| 14 | She latched on to the rodent 's peanut-sized brain and filled it with enough extraneous material to qualify him as a genius in rat terms . |
| 15 | The steward answered Agrippa 's insistent knocking and took us into the main hallway . |
| 16 | Fellow worker Hazel Goff , who has St John 's Ambulance training , then administered first aid , cutting away Mr Chittenden 's burnt clothing and sponging him with water . |
| 17 | Then he reached out , grasped Mandy 's outstretched hand and pulled her back to safe , solid ground . |
| 18 | Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down . |
| 19 | Ministry officials highlighted the plan 's architectural merits and lauded it as a demonstration of their firm and timely commitment to the Prado 's needs . |
| 20 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 21 | Without being asked , I pick a few motes of white lint from the jacket 's dark surface and help him straighten his tie . |
| 22 | Into the blind man 's stony gaze and makes it His , |
| 23 | Squire did not admire Macdonell 's early fiction and advised him to write more from observation . |
| 24 | Although Joe had never tried to analyse their relationship , inside himself he knew that it was the boy 's vicious streak that attracted him . |
| 25 | These would include such features as : allowing the child to initiate a high proportion of interactions : providing conversational bridges — " turnabouts " as Kaye and Charney ( 1980 ) call them — which both respond to the child 's previous utterance and invite him or her to say more ; making reference predominantly to the child 's or to joint activities ; and responding to the child 's utterances with extensions , which both confirm the acceptability of his or her contribution and help them to pursue the topic further . |
| 26 | The Federation itself had met the union 's national officials and treated them with courtesy . |
| 27 | Juliet left the room , trying to ignore Penny 's soft laughter that followed her . |
| 28 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 29 | Finaly the heat from the fire began to burn Yanto 's left side and forced him to roll off the still inert Molly . |
| 30 | There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant . |