Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 maybe better get doctor 's advice on owt like that .
2 managing director could not fund company 's litigation for one third of damages recovered net of company 's direct losses and legal costs .
3 He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers .
4 She could not see Finn 's neck for the hair .
5 ‘ I 'll not have Ling 's floor in a mess . ’
6 Mother and I decided that in the interests of hygiene we could not take Father 's body into Chiguana , but must bury him where he lay .
7 Does it not presuppose man 's progress from primitive to sophisticated ways of life , and does it not suggest on the basis of a progressive increase of ahi sā a movement from a less good to a better form of life ?
8 Even on his death , nearly twenty years later , the obituaries did not forget Glaze 's role in Doctor Who .
9 But the Evangelical Alliance UK , which says it represents a million churchgoers , immediately responded by saying the Church must not adopt society 's view of marriage as disposable and pre-marital sex as inevitable .
10 For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’
11 He can not forgive man 's cruelty to man ! ’
12 Next year could also see Unit 's graduation from the third tier to the main market .
13 Just do n't knock Ant 's plate on the floor
14 Falling rain , even the rain from the heaven , heav no you ca n't use heaven 's rain in this case , can you .
15 It 's a shame that more software companies do n't follow Adobe 's lead in this area .
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