Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops . |
| 2 | Hahnemann and his homoeopathy had already gained considerable prestige from his success in treating the typhus epidemic which swept into Europe in the wake of Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow in 1813 . |
| 3 | It was this continuous resistance , feeble though it often was , which broke Napoleon 's doctrine of maximum concentration in the attempt to solve the contradictory demands of operation and occupation in a hostile countryside . |
| 4 | The British also had financial interests , were the principal users of the canal , and remembered Napoleon 's threat to India . |
| 5 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 6 | Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War . |
| 7 | With Napoleon 's invasion of Spain it collapsed . |
| 8 | Was it the last act of a popular drama begun at Aranjuez and thwarted by Napoleon 's desertion of Ferdinand and protection of Godoy , a revolution of disappointed vengeance , a revolution directed against Godoy 's creatures in the provincial administrations who now followed the French ? |
| 9 | This was the Emperor Napoleon 's Army of the North and it marched towards the waiting Dutch , British and Prussian forces . |
| 10 | waged by Britain , Spain , and Portugal against Napoleon 's army in the Iberian peninsula . |
| 11 | HISTORY tells us that a large part of Napoleon 's attraction to Josephine pertained to smell . |
| 12 | The first part of this article ( ‘ MI ’ No.33 ) recounted the popular version of Napoleon 's escape from his carriage under the very lances of the pursuing Prussians on the evening of Waterloo ; examined the highly suspect claims of the opportunist Maj von Keller , who gained riches and fame by the disposal of not one but two carriages , each with the same highly coloured provenance ; and described and illustrated the landau in detail . |
| 13 | The exhibition is curated by Bernard Chevallier , a biographer of the Empress Josephine and director of the Chateau de Malmaison , Napoleon 's residence during the Consular period . |
| 14 | Though enlightened Spaniards might detest the brutal deceit of Napoleon 's seizure of Spain they felt that perhaps he alone could regenerate her . |
| 15 | If Germany attacked in mass eastward , all Russian formations were to retire , in the manner prescribed by Field Marshal Kutuzov in the face of Napoleon 's onslaught in 1812 , then counter-attack when the opportunity arose . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These include art and artefacts relating to Nelson , Wellington , Lord Byron , Keats , George IV 's spectacular coronation , the Baring bank ; Bullock furniture for Napoleon 's exile in St Helena , a Greek krater from the Hamilton Collection , a Wordsworth manuscript , Edmund Kean 's costume for Richard III , paintings by Constable , Turner , Wilkie and Landseer , and the ‘ Auto-Icon ’ , the stuffed seated figure of the reformer Jeremy Bentham . |
| 18 | The French had invested money there , had built the Suez canal and recalled Napoleon 's expedition of 1798 . |
| 19 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 20 | Napoleon 's house of exile , San Martino , is worth a visit , although Boney was quite frugal when it came to buying furniture , clearly having other things on his mind . |
| 21 | The ‘ self-coronation ’ of Ceauşescu was a gesture in imitation of Napoleon 's crowning of himself in 1804 . |
| 22 | The lieutenant had then flown the banners of the king of France and the church of Le Puy over the barbican at Vic-de-Bigorre , and had refused to countenance Roger-Bernard 's protest on behalf of his sister-in-law . |
| 23 | They are a cold , northern intellectual 's idea of Venice . ’ |
| 24 | A telling sign of misplaced priorities , in the eyes of many critics , is the EPA 's concentration on health . |
| 25 | A best guess would be around 6,600 — a figure , they pointed out , that was higher than the EPA 's estimate for 1986 , let alone for 1992 . |
| 26 | The auctions , which will involve permits allowing electricity utilities to emit sulphur dioxide , are part of the EPA 's strategy of halving emissions of the gas by the end of the decade . |
| 27 | Before proceeding any further , it is important to be clear about the falsificationist 's usage of the term ‘ falsifiable ’ . |
| 28 | The closely associated demands for precision and clarity of expression both follow naturally from the falsificationist 's account of science . |
| 29 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 30 | Sefton warden Sue MacDonald with Pepsy and Tanya two dogs neutered in the borough 's campaign against unwanted pups Picture : RICHARD WILLIAMS |