Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Terris ' ghost seemed to have an affinity with Mr Hayden because the foreman saw him nearly every day in some part of the station for some two years . |
| 2 | Workmen from the Maintenance Department , which is responsible for the smooth running of the lifts and escalators in the station , have seen William Terris ' ghost on numerous occasions as they work mostly at night so that their work causes the least interference with the travelling public . |
| 3 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 4 | The general concept of Kinmount , with its vast Soanic central saloon rising into a tribune gallery and a lantern tower , was reproduced in neo-Tudor form as his ambitious enlargement of Saltoun , East Lothian ( 1817 ) ; without the lantern tower , at his neo-Classical Adderston , Northumberland ( 1819 ) and the much larger Camperdown , Dundee ( 1821–28 ) ; and , at Blairquhan , Ayrshire ( 1820 ) where he retained the lantern tower but began to experiment with asymmetrical planning and to adopt more archaeologically correct Tudor forms , following the example of William Wilkins ' Tregothnan ( 1816 ) and Dalmeny ( 1814 ) . |
| 5 | GEORGE MILLS / Gary Mills ' Brother |
| 6 | We discuss , instead , literary genius and smack daddy William Burroughs ' involvement with Ministry . |
| 7 | End the limbo : Maginnis Maginnis ' way ahead |
| 8 | Thus Emerson 's career breaks into three parts : his years as a champion and at the top of the FI drivers ' hit parade , his years as an unhappy and frustrated team-manager and his last years as an itinerant driver in search of a lost career . |
| 9 | Jim Almonds ' jeep caught fire and several men were wounded . |
| 10 | David Kossoff , who played the Baker brothers ' father , still remembers the impression that Crawford left on him . |
| 11 | Pan Books ' spokesman Martin Neild tells me : ‘ I would n't like to comment officially , because it 's so terribly difficult to tell — you 've got to take into account overseas sales , borrowings from foreign libraries and so on . ’ |
| 12 | Pupils from 16 Colchester schools went to the University of Essex to take part in the 43rd annual Colchester Schools ' Music Festival . |
| 13 | CHRIS SCOTT / Swindon Supporters ' Club |
| 14 | The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 . |
| 15 | William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation . |
| 16 | Newly flung mashed potato clung to the walls , testament to what the Rugby Supporters ' Club thought of the ‘ mash ’ part of the lunch . |
| 17 | S. Magnus ' Cathedral at Kirkwall in Orkney ( then under Norse control ) shows a close relationship to English Norman cathedrals , as does also Stavanger Cathedral , which was begun c. 1130 . |
| 18 | Andy Hargreaves ' chapter links in with themes raised by the previous contributors . |
| 19 | Russell and Ann Mills ' flat is particularly impressive as it is located on the upper floor of the school 's west wing ( Plate 37 and Fig 53 ) and so extends up into the apex of the steeply-pitched roof . |
| 20 | Yes , when it comes to social events , the Athletico Supporters ' Club can feel rightly proud . |
| 21 | DCM 's activities have been reorganised into four sectors including an open systems planning unit developed out of Kode Computers ' government expertise . |
| 22 | Helped by Vladimir Riha 's reedy , unhoneyed tone , this performance comes over with irresistible rustic pungency and vigour as if in the open air rather than the Beaux Arts ' drawingroom . |
| 23 | And hence the characterisation of Jeff Koons ' work as a series of ‘ banalities ’ . |
| 24 | The name change also includes the adoption of the ‘ Paramount Mountain ’ ( long a part of Paramount Pictures ' identity ) as part of the Paramount Publishing logo . |
| 25 | The question which has arisen is whether in these circumstances the beneficial joint tenancy was severed before Mrs. Dennis ' death . |
| 26 | Conversely , and inevitably , if the joint tenancy was not severed before Mrs. Dennis ' death , Mr. Dennis as the survivor became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in both properties which in due course vested in his trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 27 | This was after Mrs. Dennis ' death , but in any event a receiving order does not operate to divest a debtor of his property . |
| 28 | Thus , by the moment of Mrs. Dennis ' death on 24 February 1983 , there had been no alienation by her husband of his interest in the joint tenancy . |
| 29 | On the contrary , upon adjudication there vested in Mr. Dennis ' trustee the entire beneficial interest in the two properties which , on Mrs. Dennis ' death , had passed to Mr. Dennis as the surviving joint tenant . |
| 30 | He went out of his way to meet foreign visitors from all walks of life — politicians certainly , but also a delegation from a Nobel prizewinners ' congress , a group of doctors connected with the medical movement against nuclear war , the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez , a group of writers including Arthur Miller and James Baldwin who were attending the Issyl-Kum forum in 1986 , and many others . |