Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enlightenment , if such can be the word , came on the evening following Jahsaxa 's conversation with Tammuz Malamute . |
| 2 | Alone in the big drawing-room where Annette 's choice of bright fabrics had fought hardest , albeit still without winning against her dead in-laws ' passion for darkpanelled gloom Maxim went straight to the telephone . |
| 3 | Here is one place where America 's concern with Eastern Europe bumps up against the Community 's own deliberations . |
| 4 | Both appeared to be insuperable problems until the evening when Clarissa 's change of plan for the sixth or seventh time put a pattern into perspective . |
| 5 | Before a scramble up Cust 's Gully on Great End , I consulted Wainwright 's Southern Fells and Scrambles in the Lake District by P.B. Evans . |
| 6 | It was the day after Ludens 's visit to Chelsea which had ended with his witnessing Franca 's tears . |
| 7 | One of his favourite after-dinner stories revolves around the 1979 League Cup final win against Southampton , when Clough surprised the players by lifting his customary bedtime curfew the night before Forest 's descent on Wembley . |
| 8 | A council was called on the day following Edward 's arrival at which , in accordance with the late King 's wishes , Richard of Gloucester had been declared protector of the king and kingdom . |
| 9 | Six months later , the day before Rome 's liberation by the Allies , Amaldi was found . |
| 10 | ‘ Pop stars and drugs ’ , blazed the News of the World on 29 January 1967 , the week following Miles 's analysis of the new underground , ‘ Facts that will shock you . ’ |
| 11 | This is the only recognition in The Green Book that women play an important part in making links across the tree-like diverging boundaries between groups , and in this respect too Qaddafi 's understanding of the way Libyan society works is similar to that of the Zuwaya . |
| 12 | And with an inward smile Dexter realised another reason why Blanche 's flirtation with the inspector had made him so irritable . |
| 13 | For instance , the afternoon when Twomey 's touch with the tea tray 's unfolding legs , successful for forty years , failed him , and teapot , Spode teacups , scones , sandwiches and blackcurrant jam crashed to the floor . |
| 14 | The show has twenty pieces ranging from a female torso of 1910 , lent by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne , to another treatment of the same subject from 1918 , the year before Lehmbruck 's death by his own hand in Berlin . |
| 15 | Corrupted to Pishpek in the 19th century following Kirghizia 's conquest by the Uzbek Khanate of Kokand , the name had been changed in 1926 in honour of Mikhail Frunze , a Bolshevik military commander and native of the city who had established Soviet rule in Central Asia . |
| 16 | The jobless question cropped up earlier this year when Darlington 's status as an intermediate development area prompted a public row between the two biggest rivals . |
| 17 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |
| 18 | At a time when America 's interest in British pop was at an all-time low , the label failed to produce one significant hit . |
| 19 | The launch comes at a time when Rover 's share of the record UK car market is slipping . |
| 20 | By contrast , the present day is seen as a time when people 's sense of duty and responsibility is much weaker , so that they are less prepared to acknowledge obligation or to take responsibility for kin . |
| 21 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |