Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in their intensity , their beauty and their perfection , Werner Bischof 's photographs speak of a life that was at all times deeply considered and lived to the full . |
| 2 | Alison Walker 's mouth quivered on a tearful smile . |
| 3 | Mr Arafat 's disappearance comes at a time of unprecedented crisis for the PLO . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's imagination turned to a project which could not be reversed by his successors , perhaps even by time itself . |
| 5 | Lina 's face crumpled into a grimace . |
| 6 | Lina 's mouth stretched into a sneer . |
| 7 | But when she took Lucy 's hand and smiled at her , trying to convey some of the warmth she felt , Lucy 's lips smiled for a half-second and she took her hand away . |
| 8 | I must confess to a profound sense of foreboding upon making this observation which de-generated into abject horror upon hearing the said track and realising that Oldfield 's contribution amounted to a few bars sampled from ‘ Tubular Bells ’ ! |
| 9 | Shiona 's stomach clenched like a fist within her . |
| 10 | Despite Taiwan 's agreement to comply with a UN resolution which bans the use of driftnets from the high seas [ see ED 51 ] , the ban is being ignored by the country 's fishing industry . |
| 11 | ’ Latimer 's tone dropped to a near whisper . |
| 12 | Each office in Scott 's design consisted of a central block , with parallel wings extending from the ends of the block to form a three-sided court . |
| 13 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 14 | All of which suggests that the bidding for Siemens Nixdorf 's hand looks like a straight fight between ICL Plc with Fujitsu Ltd , and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 15 | Robina Fairfax 's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own , so variously coloured and oddly shaped were they . |
| 16 | Friend 's triumph flared like a lightning flash . |
| 17 | They found Lucifer 's tail hanging in a tree and the donkey 's head jammed on a gatepost . |
| 18 | The process had ground to a halt by early 1990 [ see p. 37199 ] , largely as a result of Likud 's hesitancy to proceed with a first-stage meeting of Egyptian , Israeli and United States officials without first receiving certain US " guarantees " ( the first-stage meeting was supposed to discuss a second-stage Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Cairo on the proposed elections ) . |
| 19 | The web of lines around Edward 's eyes wrinkled in a frown . |
| 20 | Later , in 1908 , they had to plan once again how to combine their joint ideal of a free domestic relationship with the solitude that Edward 's nature demanded as a price to be paid for his self-discovery as a writer . |
| 21 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 22 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 23 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 24 | Travis 's voice dropped to a husky growl . |
| 25 | Paige had never seen him before , but Travis 's face broke into a smile as he recognised the young man . |
| 26 | Huw Richard 's series continues with a visit to Peter Wynne-Thomas at Trent Bridge |
| 27 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 28 | Fritzi 's file ended on a positive note : |
| 29 | Syria 's rehabilitation culminated in a November meeting in Geneva between Assad and United States President Bush . |
| 30 | Again , the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865 was put down with savage majesty by Governor Eyre — 600 men , women and children indiscriminately massacred , many more hundreds executed , and a thousand homes burned to the ground — as Eyre 's troops went on a three-week orgy of hanging , torture , flogging and rape . |