Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Hay , seeing Johnson 's fear , talked to him all the time as to a child , trying to keep him cheerful , but this measure only excited Boswell 's scorn , especially when he heard Hay trying to distract Johnson with the antics of the local goats . |
| 2 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 3 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 4 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 5 | A 100-fold excess incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease among Libyan Jews was previously attributed to their eating lightly cooked sheep 's brain and eyeballs . |
| 6 | The two men sat on the bunk shelf very still , and their saucer eyes never left Holly 's face . |
| 7 | Main picture Squaring the circle Below left Ingrid 's Granny Gorie — ‘ the best seamstress I 've ever had ’ — has been an invaluable source of advice Right and below right Orkney 's stark shorelines , wide skies and drifting clouds are echoed in Ingrid 's landscape pattern |
| 8 | Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year . |
| 9 | The Cold War also relaxed Congress 's hold on the purse-strings to Britain 's advantage . |
| 10 | erm , but I do n't see why she ca n't , whenever she wants to look for files , copy files and sort out other people 's mess |
| 11 | Sir Geoffrey Howe , increasingly sidelined by events , must have lost his best moment when this week 's challenge failed seriously to wound the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | One minute later , as Milton were awarded a free kick just outside Lane 's penalty area , Nigel Mott of Milton was involved in a silly disagreement with the Rayners Lane keeper , Neil Keller , but the situation was well diffused by the referee . |
| 13 | But they could never have imagined the extent to which their fame would spread , so much so that today , at certain times of the year , visitors to the spa almost double Baden 's population . |
| 14 | I really fancy Peter like flipping god 's sake I mean I really do . |
| 15 | This , too , was of good quality , and there was a small patch on the collar where another maker 's label had apparently been cut out . |
| 16 | I mean , do you think that perhaps is , is more advanced than Plato , because Plato on this incredible myth of his of going on this journey where ordinary people 's view of the form was n't very good so they would come back in an inf perhaps in an inferior form , but I get the feeling that with we have the opportunity of seeing something that is going to improve us anyway , that we 've all got an equal chance of some kind of improvement . |
| 17 | One very recent in those debation at Ealing Hospital in West London , has been invited to , invited the staff to hand back this year 's pay rise . |
| 18 | Injury kept O'Hara out last season 's championship , and he also missed the tour to New Zealand last summer . |
| 19 | A Vauxhall Viva resprayed in unspeakable tangerine to conceal a multitude of rusty sins and described as ‘ a sound and reliable workhorse ’ looked to his eye more like a duck very near death 's door . |
| 20 | But press officer for Jet , John Maple , who belongs to the same union as Mr Keeping , says that there are statutory reasons why this morning 's protest may have been in vain . |
| 21 | The discovery of the true facts only increased people 's fascination , for birds ' arduous migrations demand phenomenal navigation skills . |
| 22 | TRANSPORT Secretary Malcolm Rifkind yesterday branded Labour 's transport policies as ‘ daft ’ . |
| 23 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 24 | Conference , could you be upstanding and welcome on to the platform , Catherine and , delegates from the Lancashire region where last year 's congress was held , to unveil the G M B banner . |