Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 2 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 3 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 4 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 5 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 6 | Seasons : At an altitude of 2,475′ ( 750m ) , this mountain crag faces NE and gets morning sunshine , with the top third of Titan 's Wall receiving it in the evening . |
| 7 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
| 8 | Mrs Knight said Bruce 's daughter joined him in the house and cleared out a bureau which she had in the bedroom . |
| 9 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 10 | Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States . |
| 11 | And this time China 's rulers knifed it in the back with shameless savagery — then set about hounding the survivors in a reign of terror . |
| 12 | TONY WILSON 's win over Steve McCarthy in the British light-heavyweight title eliminator at Southampton last month , when McCarthy refused to continue after Wilson 's mother attacked him in the ring , has been officially ratified by the British Board of Control . |
| 13 | From the right-hand page Vron 's face stared me in the eye . |
| 14 | Bernice 's summons halted him in the doorway . |
| 15 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
| 16 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 17 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act . |