Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the Emperor Napoleon 's Army of the North and it marched towards the waiting Dutch , British and Prussian forces . |
| 2 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 3 | He heard Lady whine her disappointment as the taller , quicker dog snapped another piece of Frankie 's sandwich from the air and swallowed it in a single gulp . |
| 4 | He strained his eyes but could make out no more than the vague outline of Ngo Van Loc 's face in the darkness . |
| 5 | And that clearly is restricting Crosby 's hand in the transfer market . |
| 6 | Twenty-three people were injured ; Oleksandr Serhienko , Khmara 's colleague in the Republican Party , was beaten up and arrested on July 20 . |
| 7 | Spencer 's emphasis on the struggle against the environment as the driving force of progress thus helped to create the popular image of ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 8 | You 're all having arguments about that , you all go to the pictures , an early showing , you go home , bung a Marks and Spencer 's meal into the oven , they 're great I could live on it , O K , just bung it into the oven , pull out the cork , then you sit down , wind down the week , couple of sherbets , maybe a glass of brandy , one o'clock in the morning , here we come , and all the rest of it , sort the world out , Friday night , wind down , enjoy the weekend . |
| 9 | Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls . |
| 10 | Marks and Spencer 's mind with the brandy . |
| 11 | Perhaps I 'm sounding cynical , but the sight of Diana reaching for Lady Spencer 's arm during the funeral service made me feel quite sick . |
| 12 | Berlin , and the division of a city by an artificial wall , has haunted Christo 's imagination since the beginning of his career . |
| 13 | Harry tapped the foot plate of Cunningham 's wheelchair with the toe of his shoe . |
| 14 | It was a command that would result in the slaying of actress of Sharon Tate ( who was pregnant with film director Roman Polanski 's child at the time of her fatal stabbing ) , coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her lover Wojiciech Frykowski , delivery boy Steven Earl Parent and Hollywood hair stylist to the stars , Jay Sebring . |
| 15 | Durkheim 's identification of the fact of social solidarity captured the spirit of his times . |
| 16 | Admiring Durkheim 's stress on the need for community , Eliot wrote that , ‘ For the savage or the civilized man , a solely individual existence would be intolerable : he feels the need of recreating and sustaining his strength by periodic refuge in another consciousness which is supra-individual . |
| 17 | This view is close to , and was influenced by , Durkheim 's idea of the state as ‘ a special organ responsible for elaborating certain representations which are valid for the collectivity ’ and are ‘ distinguished from other collective representations by their higher degree of consciousness and reflection ’ . |
| 18 | The Division of Labor expounds Durkheim 's theory about the development of specialized work in society . |
| 19 | Warren Beatty also discovered a route to instant fame , co-starring with Natalie Wood , one of the world 's most glamorous young actresses in 1959 , in Elia Kazan 's Splendor in the Grass . |
| 20 | Only after a time did I force my attention to the other problem — Gharr 's demand for the phetam in return for Mala . |
| 21 | By 1715 when the syndicate took over Savery 's part of the patent there were engines in use in Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Cornwall and Flintshire . |
| 22 | Portugal 's Assembly of the Republic approved the new law on April 17 , 1990 , which was to be in force from May 10 , 1990 , until the transfer of power to China at the end of 1999 . |
| 23 | The authorities confirmed that the assassin was a member of a " special intervention unit " which had been charged with Boudiaf 's security at the event in Annaba . |
| 24 | Even Scudamore would have been proud of Sansome 's recovery at the Chair . |
| 25 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 26 | Although the PS generally backed Mitterrand 's prosecution of the war , two notable exceptions were the former Foreign Minister ( PS ) , Claude Cheysson , and the Defence Minister , Jean-Pierre Chevènement who resigned on Jan. 29 [ ibid ; see also p. 38299 ] . |
| 27 | Moeri 's account of the accident could have a profound effect on the defence the company makes at the trial , which resumes on 11 May . |
| 28 | In Moeri 's design for the plant , heat was continuously removed from the reaction by evaporation of xylene . |
| 29 | Lord Mansfield 's judgment in the case , adverse to the Crown , became known as the Magna Carta of the Colonies . |
| 30 | So Gelon 's thank-offering after the battle of Himera , in which he defeated the Carthaginians , just reads ‘ Gelon son of Deinomenes the Syracusan ’ ; similarly the bronze helmet found at Olympia , dedicated by Hiero after his victory at Kyme — ‘ Hiero son of Deinomenes and the Syracusans ’ ( ML 28–9 = Fornara 54 , 64 ) . |