Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Minch was carried past Woil 's cage he said , ‘ Nice Men brought Minch back to us . |
| 32 | ‘ Captain Meredith 's nigger it 'll be , and I 'll thankee to get back to th'work , Sally Dade , — said Salt . |
| 33 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 34 | If it would have caught Meredith 's attention she would n't have minded a bone lodging in her gullet , but then there was always the risk he might think she was merely coughing — she could choke for nothing . |
| 35 | ‘ Come quick , ’ he cried , and tugging at Meredith 's arm he toppled him from his stool and ran him out of the door . |
| 36 | When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke . |
| 37 | And when your time was out there was no question of you not getting a journeyman 's wages you were you were paid that alright . |
| 38 | With Taffy 's help we can make sure the sermons grab everyone 's attention . ’ |
| 39 | But to Dustin 's credit he recognised it as a role in which he could immediately dissociate himself from the whole ‘ image ’ concept of acting , as well as prove that , ‘ I was a character actor , not just this nebbish kid that Nichols found . |
| 40 | Macari threw the corroding garment down in full view of the club 's directors he told them it reflected the state of their club . |
| 41 | According to Nicholas Fairburn 's housekeeper he and his wife has gone out . |
| 42 | But instead of openly endorsing Brezhnev 's initiative he called for ‘ more details of the ways to neutralise the Arabian Gulf and keep it out of international conflict ’ . |
| 43 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 44 | Since 1981 German car makers have lowered the share of a car 's value they produce themselves from nearly 40% to less than 35% . |
| 45 | With David 's help I unfurled my multi-coloured paraglider , donned a helmet and strapped myself into the simple harness . |
| 46 | The mixed media trio did not prove successful but during that period of David 's life he found work as an extra on the film The Virgin Soldiers and appeared in a pilot television commercial for Lyons Maid , advertising their new ice-cream . |
| 47 | Before reaching St David 's Head we passed a massive rampart of stone stretching 200ft from cliff to cliff . |
| 48 | So we went , which was the backdoor to Started onc singing Once In Royal David 's City you know , cos I knew he , he liked that . |
| 49 | At the lowest point in David 's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem . |
| 50 | At Clogau St. David 's mine it occurs in small , rich , steeply-dipping shoots associated with pyrite and pyrrhotite together with galena and bismuth tellurides . |
| 51 | Although , to be fair , if Phena , for whatever reason , did find out that you were David 's granddaughter we 'd never hear the last of it . ’ |
| 52 | People of that age , it 's like David 's grandma they do n't know what affection means . |
| 53 | We have brought along a TV guide and judging by a programme 's popularity we can correctly predict flows . |
| 54 | If the programme 's stereo I think and you 've got a stereo telly . |
| 55 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 56 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 57 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 58 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 59 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 60 | In her mind 's eye she saw the assassin 's mouth open and close , and on them read the syllables of her name . |