Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] 's [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curse was only employed twice — once against the magistrate who fined my father £100 and took away his publican 's licence for receiving a stolen lorry load of whisky during the war . |
| 2 | Like mothers the world over Mrs Burrows must have watched and pondered , and wondered just what God 's plan for her offspring would be , but she never expressed any doubts . |
| 3 | AN EMOTIONAL row broke out in Manila yesterday as Mrs Imelda Marcos vowed to defy a government ban on her bringing home her husband 's body for burial at the weekend . |
| 4 | This smug man who had nothing at all to do with her life had helped to wipe out her father 's existence for her . |
| 5 | The BJP leader L. K. Advani had already ruled out his party 's support for Congress ( I ) and had stated that his party would function as an " effective opposition " . |
| 6 | And yet it Ackroyd 's love for Dickens which is this book 's only substantial deficiency . |