Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 2 | I have driven along that road to Scotland many times and I know that beyond my hon. Friend 's constituency it is not so good . |
| 3 | But in my great grannie 's time I think they did that . |
| 4 | From my thirteen-year-old daughter 's account it is still as uncritical as it was in my own schooldays . |
| 5 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 6 | Get a man and mould him to their own design — onto their personal potter 's wheel he goes , all the unacceptable bits gouged out . |
| 7 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 8 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 9 | And this brother who married his late brother 's wife he would also take over all that belonged to her , because , you know , all that , it was his dead brother 's , he would take it all over , it would become his the land , the business the property , the mortgage , the debts they would all become the brother who now marries the th th the widow . |
| 10 | His newborn son 's face he could still recall vividly and sometimes did in his dreams , that white unsullied look of sweet knowledgeable contentment , as if , in a brief moment of life , he had seen and known all there was to know , seen it and rejected it . |
| 11 | Ken did and Jackie promptly produced results : on his first day 's testing he was as quick as Bruce McLaren ; in his first race he won and scored eleven victories in thirteen starts . |
| 12 | In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects . |