Example sentences of "by a [noun] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Challenge worked her way through an area strewn with salmon cages and creels and with some difficulty found her way through into the lee of the island , which was now illuminated by a coastguard auxiliary 's searchlight . |
2 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
3 | BUILDING contractor John Scott is being sued by a plumbing firm 's boss for the crash of her company . |
4 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
5 | So a revolution in music was catalysed by a record executive 's desire for his own personal sexual soundtrack . |
6 | ‘ No more tyrants and victims , no more the fevered alterations of that demon-star which sponsored the births of de Sade and von Sacher-Masoch ; but the hermaphrodite whole , opposites bound together in mitigating embrace by a silk worm 's thread … |