Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has neither Locke 's confidence in reason nor Wesley 's confidence in his spiritual sense . |
| 2 | But in the discreet , epicene efficiency with which he clears away Casio 's bowl of vomit or dusts down Othello after his fit , he is the finicky gentleman 's gentleman , his body language strongly reminiscent of Dirk Bogarde in The Servant . |
| 3 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 4 | It is the establishing of God 's Kingly rule , which entails both God 's provision for his people and requirements from them . |
| 5 | That combination indicates perhaps Cohan 's key to the entire venture , for the ‘ technique mix ’ scenario does n't begin and end with his association with the Scottish Ballet . |
| 6 | Eliot sets aside Arnold 's notion of culture , stating that his own main interest is ‘ with the culture that a whole society may develop and transmit ’ . |
| 7 | Screen Industries Officer for Lothian Region and Edinburgh District Councils , puts forward Edinburgh 's case as a film and TV location . |
| 8 | A late amphora by the Kleophrades Painter carries further Euthymides 's integration of ‘ picture ’ and ‘ pot-decoration ’ : the frame dissolved into a strip of pattern under the two big figures on each side . |
| 9 | The whole scene demonstrates admirably Britten 's approach to words and his understanding of how they can be made vehicles , both for meanings which go beyond their own familiar significations , and for a special kind of music which comes , by some alchemy , from the combination of phonemes and notes . |