Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How could it 'ave jumped out of that geezer 's pocket into me hat ? ’ |
| 2 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 3 | The sudden death of Philip in the novel is one of the few references in Thomas 's work traceable to the impact of the elder critic 's death upon him and the Part it played in hardening his determination to become a writer . |
| 4 | ‘ Joe Gargery , I am sent by someone who suggests cancelling this boy 's apprenticeship to you . |
| 5 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 6 | It was politically unsound , and that was my old band 's argument against it ’ — Norman Cook |
| 7 | I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend 's constituency with him . |
| 8 | But there was nothing in the least admiring in this man 's assessment of her . |
| 9 | You 've got another man 's child in you . |
| 10 | The old man 's faith in her did wonders for her morale . |
| 11 | He glanced aside at his grandfather , to see the old man 's eye on him . |
| 12 | The techs froze with shock for the two heartbeats it took Mitchell to turn the old man 's gun on them . |
| 13 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 14 | Q : But this Darcy 's Utopia of yours , this paradise , is surely merely a dream . |
| 15 | ‘ Jorja , stop poisoning that boy 's mind against me . ’ |
| 16 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 17 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We made a real dog 's breakfast of it . ’ |
| 20 | Central government 's responsibility for it was not at all clear . |
| 21 | Joseph had planned to sell Sabine Jourdain 's work for her and cut out Maurin . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Hugh Gaitskell made the Tory Government 's case for it when he said in the House of Commons Defence debate : |
| 25 | She was stifling , she was being crushed , overwhelmed , and the hard man 's body against her was not Neil 's but that of the man who had … who … had … and panic ensued , all-enveloping panic , uncontrollable . |
| 26 | What was your previous employer 's opinion of you ? |
| 27 | What 's even more special about this is that Lindsey 's back with us too . ’ |
| 28 | The present baronet 's likeness to him was almost uncanny . |
| 29 | ‘ He swirled his black necromancer 's cloak about her , and he carried her from the Sun Chamber and out through the great doors , and out into the night and none could stop him . |
| 30 | It is the most astonishing part of all God 's providence to me , that He so far forsaketh almost all the world , and confineth His special favour to so few ; that so small a part of the world hath the profession of Christianity . ’ |