Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa 's response comes in the flat voice I know , and fear , ‘ Talk properly , James . |
| 2 | Nead 's text takes in the conventional notions of feminine beauty , pornography and the tabloid press , the fine line between sexuality and the obscene and the recent reclamation of the nude by female artists . |
| 3 | Flack 's skin glistened in the white , gritty light , his thin face tight with fatigue . |
| 4 | But Whitaker 's luck changed in the four rider Horsemaster final when he again looked likely to finish as a runner-up . |
| 5 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 6 | The loss of Simpson makes Oxford 's fight to stay in the second division even harder . |
| 7 | Even worse , if they 'd fancied a bottle of Bell 's whisky to toast in the New Year , it would have cost them £23.04 , almost twice the UK price . |
| 8 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 9 | The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations . |
| 10 | As former champions , Queen 's Club rested in the fourth round — head and shoulders above the Area 5 pack . |
| 11 | Preston 's glance took in the broad shoulders , a black beard , a lean , dark face and a big nose . |
| 12 | Müncheberg 's Staffel returned in the early evening as escorts to Italian bombers , engaging six Hurricanes over Luqa . |
| 13 | Marketing to Supplier companies will have to determine how most multi-individual buying effectively to market their products to the various structures and DMU 's roles identified in the previous section . |
| 14 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 15 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 16 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 17 | The Fraternity was disbanded , but many of its ideas and methods have been taken up by the new women 's organizations formed in the 1970s . |
| 18 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 19 | The car 's number in gold shaded black and a maker 's transfer appeared in the left hand upper panel of the bulkhead balanced by a glass bullseye in the right hand one , over which a red slide could be moved to act as a tail lamp . |
| 20 | With Tyson gone and Tucker 's prominence chequered in the continuing row over who Lewis should fight first , King has no charismatic heavyweight to bring in big money so sees Chavez as his passport into Mexico , where the fighter is viewed almost as a God and where vast live gates and previously untapped pay-per-view television income looms large . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's every lad 's dream to play in the All Ireland final and now that we have got this far we want to make sure and win . |
| 22 | Mr Coleby 's footsteps echoed in the uncarpeted hall . |
| 23 | Sweetheart 's footsteps rang in the flagged yard . |
| 24 | DUNDEE 's player-manager , Simon Stainrod , may have to reconsider his on-field role after yet another ‘ talisman ’ contribution towards Dundee 's consolidation hopes in the Premier Division . |
| 25 | Two copies of Gainsborough 's portrait survive in the National Portrait Gallery , London , and the Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale , Bologna . |
| 26 | When Edberg 's serve wavered in the seventh game , Becker struck in deadly fashion , taking the game to love with a dazzling array of returns and passing shots . |
| 27 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the changing age structure of Britain 's population described in the previous chapters will lead to increasing demands on the workforce of the twenty-first century to support an ageing population . |
| 29 | Much of Australia 's population live in the temperate rain forest conditions of South of the evergreen conditions of the South West because the lands vegetation is able to live with . |
| 30 | Darwin 's reluctance to publish in the 1840s can easily be understood in terms of the still active controversy over Lamarckism and Chambers ' Vestiges . |