Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] 's [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew instinctively that this was no casual conversation and that for Cora-Beth 's sake he must be honest . |
| 2 | Yes , well , commandeer , hire half of Bill 's shed I think . |
| 3 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 4 | When we brought this to Lowe 's attention they said they were working on the problem . |
| 5 | He wondered how much of Lessingham 's account she had heard . |
| 6 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 7 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 8 | I rather hoped I would n't have to face you with this but thanks to your belief that I 'm somehow responsible for Eddie 's death you force my hand . |
| 9 | Asked whether the ice-cool Borg was angry at Loredana 's claim he replied : ‘ Bjorn very seldom loses his temper . |
| 10 | A day or two after Nicholas 's death he decided to found a journal . |
| 11 | is so close to Dad 's spine it 's |
| 12 | True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night . |
| 13 | Till last by Philip 's farm I flow |