Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 2 | But there was nothing in the least admiring in this man 's assessment of her . |
| 3 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 4 | Q : But this Darcy 's Utopia of yours , this paradise , is surely merely a dream . |
| 5 | It was a tall , slender lady that mounted the platform , quite unlike the popular medias ' image of her . |
| 6 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ We made a real dog 's breakfast of it . ’ |
| 8 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 9 | Another way in which Coleridge addresses the subject of creativity is to look at the natural world in the context of the human mind 's perception of it . |
| 10 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |
| 11 | What was your previous employer 's opinion of you ? |
| 12 | The National Union also reacted fiercely to the attacks on Younger by coalitionist ministers , most of all Birkenhead 's description of him as " the cabin boy " and Lloyd George 's of " a second-class brewer " . |
| 13 | And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that . |
| 14 | One person 's reception of them does not reduce the ability of others to receive them . |
| 15 | I know we , you have n't got a cat in bloody hell 's chance of us going but |
| 16 | Arfur 's missus has never appeared on screen but her shady husband 's description of her will appear in the famous reference work 's next edition . |
| 17 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 18 | She had from the beginning an immunity to other people 's opinion of her , which is n't a characteristic that is much liked in women . |
| 19 | The luxuries and extra food dancers always get represent the Russian public 's view of them as ‘ holy personages ’ , as she puts it . |
| 20 | Before we look at the separate groups and the new pope 's treatment of them , more needs to be said about poverty and preaching . |
| 21 | In last month 's analysis of She 's Got It Bad by Shaun Ward of Simply Red , the second half of bars 12 and 16 should read Gn , G♯ , A , not G♯ , A , A♯ . |
| 22 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |