Example sentences of "[adj] 's [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone might say : it is a principle of personal morality that if someone shares in the gains of another 's action he must also share the responsibility for wrongs that other person does . |
| 2 | After Edward III 's death he resigned his allegiance and his title , and returned to France , leaving his wife in England . |
| 3 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 4 | Due to the diversity of Club 18–30 's programme it is not , unfortunately , possible to give information on each of the countries featured in this brochure . |
| 5 | The agonies of the north , both for the local populace and for the king and realm , were by no means at an end yet , but in Edward II 's reign they reached a scale unapproached before and not exceeded afterwards . |
| 6 | In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … , |
| 7 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 8 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 9 | In the early years of Henry IV 's reign it was primarily an official body executing his wishes . |
| 10 | Later in Edward I 's reign he and his wife had a series of disputes with the Dublin government . |
| 11 | At best , however , the feudal summons could produce a cavalry force of little over 500 men , and even in Edward I 's reign it had obviously been insufficient in itself as a means of raising an army . |
| 12 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |