Example sentences of "[pron] ['s] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose Argol , or someone like him , suddenly leaped out of someone 's driveway to give me a taste of his galaxy 's latest in combat weapons . |
| 2 | ‘ I think Oswald was about to tell us , ’ I replied , ‘ before someone 's dagger took him firmly in the back . |
| 3 | The telephone went , which was a possible cue , and she came out and heard somebody 's secretary giving him a brushoff . |
| 4 | ‘ As far as I can make out , ’ Blunt said , ‘ the girl was in the fields under our dog-fight , and somebody 's bullets hit her . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd just phoned it through and people started ringing up saying you know somebody 's mother tells me and can you come and do our son because he wants to do this and Yes sure . |
| 6 | And I can tell when somebody 's bin moving me stuff around . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , everyone 's wrongs concern me , ’ he said , but his voice was as cool as ever . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the Fire Brigades Union said the pay formula had now brought industrial peace since it was set up in 1977 and ‘ therefore it is in everyone 's interest to retain it . ’ |
| 9 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 11 | The annoying , the infuriating , the debilitating side of being a weeper is one 's inability to control it . |
| 12 | No need to toil in the sweat of one 's brow to support it ! |
| 13 | If a mistake is made , it is best policy to admit it quickly and to work with the client and one 's colleagues to resolve it as soon as possible . |
| 14 | What is needed is some mechanism for enforcement of the agreement , so that it would be in no one 's interest to break it . |
| 15 | It would have been no one 's job to put them away . |
| 16 | And if if it does start dropping we 're gon na have to change our tactics and go and do something else you know we 'll we 'll knock on anybody 's doors do you know what I mean w we 're not proud and we 'll go you know we 'll just change our tactics and er whatever it takes . |
| 17 | We have no idea whether the music matches the nomenclature , but it must be worth £5 of anyone 's money to encourage them . |