Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constanze 's guardian accordingly drew up a document that Mozart was required to sign , promising to marry her within three years , or else pay a large sum as compensation . |
| 2 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 3 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 4 | The plaintiff 's friend then poured out the rest of the contents and a decomposed snail flowed out of the bottle . |
| 5 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 6 | The complaint of maladministration was not upheld , the Commissioner finding that the complainant 's grievance essentially turned around the meaning of the phrase ‘ best practicable means ’ the complainant being of the opinion that any emission of obnoxious odours provided grounds for legal proceedings , whereas the Health and Safety Executive , while accepting there was an occasional emission which produced some slight smell , did not consider that this constituted an offence . |
| 7 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 8 | The show itself dealt undisguisedly with Lucille Ball 's troubled marriage to Cuban band leader Desi Arnez , the birth of their son , the twin tugs of showbiz and domesticity , and so on ; just as Sean 's Show overtly takes on the hero 's difficulties with women , and his tendency towards depression and paranoia . |
| 9 | Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . |
| 10 | Last year 's mission also notched up a significant horticultural success . |