Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken Maidstone 's money from him in the bar . |
| 2 | This is a long way from Dicey 's reliance on them as the guardians of our rights . |
| 3 | We obtain a national picture of crime and people 's attitudes towards it from the three BCS , but for their critics these surveys have emphasised this national picture at the expense of the inner cities , which suffered more than their fair share of crime . |
| 4 | It is also true that Kilvert had no gift for self-analysis , and further that the diary was impoverished by his widow 's removal from it of the volumes which apparently described not only their courtship and marriage , but the two most profound of Kilvert 's previous affairs of the heart ; though she left the frequent passages describing Kilvert 's passionate attachments to young girls , whose fundamentally erotic nature it is clear that neither she nor Kilvert himself recognized . |
| 5 | The company , whose workstation and systems business is now housed in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Axil Workstations in San Jose , California , reckons Sun Microsystems Inc will only have a month 's headstart on it in the SuperSparc market . |
| 6 | Two days later , Gloucester 's arrival in the inner court circle was further emphasized by the queen 's grant to him of the stewardship of her land with an annual fee of £100 . |
| 7 | Two days later , Gloucester 's arrival in the inner court circle was further emphasized by the queen 's grant to him of the stewardship of her land with an annual fee of £100 . |
| 8 | SPY Ian Spiro took the riddle of his family 's massacre with him to the grave yesterday . |
| 9 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
| 10 | Federman has fully digested Beckett 's influence on him to the point of formulating carefully thought-out positions on the new direction fiction will take . |
| 11 | Bede 's reference to it in the context of the situation in 731 could suggest , on balance , that it was concluded when Ceolwulf became king or very soon after . |
| 12 | Light was coming from Duke Michael 's window opposite me across the moat , and I could see into the room . |
| 13 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 14 | NEW ZEALAND 's symbiotic relationship with Western Samoa is fast making international selection an exercise in flying flags of convenience judging by Pat Lam 's appearance for them in the Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 15 | So far as the transfer of the property or the whole or part of the husband 's share in it to the wife is concerned , the provisions set out in Chapter 2 apply and for the reasons there mentioned there is unlikely to be a liability for capital gains tax or inheritance tax . |
| 16 | He may have no reason to acknowledge the government 's authority over him regarding the conditions under which parents may leave their children unattended by adults . |
| 17 | Mr Hughes said Sweeney picked up a knife from a table and stabbed the restaurant 's owner with it in the back of the hand . |
| 18 | In that event his creditor was entitled to ask the court to register the borrower 's indebtedness to him for the sum claimed as a fact without further to-do , and without the borrower 's case being heard . |
| 19 | They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being . |
| 20 | Nothing could be more impressive , for example than Wagner 's use of it in the Prelude to Parsifal . |
| 21 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 22 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 23 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 24 | All voluntary organizations in the community care field face an uncertain though challenging future as a result of the government 's encouragement to them in the 1990 Act to take a more active , participative role in providing services directly to clients in the community , with finance provided by the local authority or health authority . |
| 25 | ‘ I have considered all the facts that you describe relating to the circumstances and they are substantially as in my officer 's report to me about the death . |
| 26 | The debate as to whether this institutional framework exercised a determining ( ideological ) influence on film output has been an ongoing one , but the importance of Claire Johnston 's contribution to it in the mid seventies is that she argued for a reading of Hollywood entertainment films which made a space for ‘ collective fantasies of women 's desire ’ . |
| 27 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 28 | All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks . |
| 29 | This group 's unsuccessful conduct of the war incurred them much unpopularity , and discontent at their domination of the king , together with rumours of corruption , self-seeking and extortion , underlay the commons ' attack upon them in the Good Parliament of 1376 . |