Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can see right through Doddie 's head now . |
| 2 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 3 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 4 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 5 | I feel a certain sympathy for their wallflower purity , none for their legislators ' regard for the morals of others , and most for Mapplethorpe 's prophylaxis . |
| 6 | It fitted everything Tony insists is the East 17 mould , a ‘ real ’ , personalised romp lurking somewhere between EMF 's sense of fun(k) and the communal catastrophe of Flowered Up . |
| 7 | Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere . |
| 8 | Perhaps somewhere between Goebel 's string texture on period instruments and the Amsterdam Bach Soloists ' mixed strings and woodwinds using modern instruments . |
| 9 | In fact what strikes me most forcibly about Lyell 's pillars is not their evidence of placid uniformitarianism but rather of episodic " catastrophism " . |
| 10 | From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'm right and the link is money , who knows most about Wheeler 's financial affairs ? ’ |
| 12 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 13 | ‘ Who employed there would know most about Hauser 's day-to-day work , the orders he gives ? ’ |
| 14 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 15 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 16 | Down coast , a district referred to locally as Belfast 's Beverley Hills . |
| 17 | The mills are in Heaton Road , and the boilerhouse chimney , 255 feet high , is in the style of a Venetian campanile and is known locally as Lister 's Pride . |
| 18 | It was known locally as Shane 's Castle , Shane presumably being the toll-house keeper . |
| 19 | The Branch , which is known locally as Bolton 's oldest bank , has its origins in a banking partnership formed in 1818 by five businessman — Robert Barlow , wine merchant , Thomas Hardcastle and James Ormrod , cotton spinners , and James Cross and Thomas Rushton , solicitors . |
| 20 | The business carried on , despite the 1932 fire , until 1935 , when it changed hands , becoming the Stroud Flock Company and later known locally as Lipsey 's Flock Mill . |
| 21 | And he talked effectively about Britain 's place in Europe and the world . |
| 22 | The task now imposed on everyone , and especially those preparing to spend the weekend in Strasbourg , is to think big and flexibly about Europe 's future . |
| 23 | So , I do get a bit ac , I mean , th there 's , there 's one young girl in the class and , we were on about women 's role in society and going on about third world woman , but even western woman have their position , you know , she does the housework |
| 24 | Pollitt thundered on about Italy 's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned . |
| 25 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 26 | Whooshing on about David 's beauty and elegance on the top layer , she carves her and her disciples up a treat underneath . |
| 27 | he 's on about dog 's leg being bad and Bill 's had a look see if he 's dented car cos he 'd just |
| 28 | Mr Healey here went on about Labour 's success in the Euro-elections ; I said it was just mid-term and all that ; and he said , With respect , no . |
| 29 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 30 | Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel . |