Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their routine was not the high-kicking style that eventually made John 's name . |
| 2 | He eventually became Queen 's Counsel and magistrate despite ‘ an eccentric manner ’ and beliefs that included opposition to drink and tobacco and advocacy of votes for women ( the latter provoking ‘ considerable amusement ’ during his four unsuccessful attempts to become MP for Aylesbury ) . |
| 3 | Samuel Richardson eventually became Duck 's authorized publisher , not to mention Leapor 's . |
| 4 | and they say film industry department , Wakefield somewhere got John 's name out of the blue , so that , do n't know anything else about it because he 's , he 's always been seen by you know , this , this other company , and he got three tax eighty seven , eighty eight , eighty eight , eighty nine , ninety , and one what , were the estimate was twenty five thousand pounds , and five thousand pounds |
| 5 | He vigorously applied Charles 's policy of raising money by reviving the ancient Forest administration . |
| 6 | Llanelli struggled initially in the scrums but Evans , on the loose head , eventually countered Mustoe 's awkward scrummaging technique . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , in the mid-1950s , Dr J. G. O'Mara of Iowa State University successfully applied Givaudon 's colchicine technique to a hybrid of rye and durum , and hence produced hexaploid triticales ; one set of chromosomes from rye , plus two sets from the tetraploid durum makes three — and double it , to make six . |
| 8 | The news slowly penetrated Yanto 's brain , then registered . |
| 9 | He duly entered John 's interment in his register : ‘ Aged 24 ; with Military Honours ’ . |
| 10 | He rather doubted Caroline 's story , but it was flattering that any woman should think she 'd had him . |
| 11 | In the second half he moved forward more often and eventually created England 's second goal . |
| 12 | But whereas Althusser followed Bachelard 's and Cavaillès ' preoccupation with the formal systems of the pure sciences and set theory , Foucault rather pursued Canguilhem 's focus on the medical and biological sciences , which emphasized their cultural frame and the historical and institutional ( both discursive and non-discursive ) conditions of their emergence which , according to Canguilhem , ‘ chronicle-history ’ neglected . |
| 13 | Assured of success by the dream of a warrior called Black Hair , twenty-eight warriors , including Ollokot , Looking Glass , Toohoolhoolzote , Two Moons and Bird Alighting , stealthily entered Howard 's camp at 3.30 a.m. to steal his horses . |
| 14 | We surveyed the scene and then together sought God 's word on it . |
| 15 | Their confidence grew into overwhelming proportions and in the opinion of many observers they swiftly became Manchester 's tedious twosome . |
| 16 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 17 | The trial only revealed Godoy 's political and moral isolation and convinced Napoleon that these ‘ dirty intrigues ’ made either faction an impossibly unreliable ally . |
| 18 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 19 | NEITHER Pétain nor any of the French commanders at Verdun entirely shared Joffre 's optimism . |
| 20 | The man in Eden , Cain 's father , at first accepted God 's prohibition without question , and he and the woman only misread God 's motives when prompted by the snake . |
| 21 | Leith smiled pleasantly , but on turning her head she suddenly met Naylor 's gaze full on . |
| 22 | None of the characters he meets comes alive ( designer Wayne Cherry is the nearest ) , and the dramatic feel for the politicking , pressures and personal fears and obsessions that so enlivened Kidder 's book is lacking . |
| 23 | Later on as a teacher Mr Dear was once called on to teach English and , ‘ Naturally used Phil 's methods . |
| 24 | The woman inspected her , her head on one side , then she reached out with her free hand , and gently stroked Juliet 's shining black hair . |
| 25 | Soon the going became very rough , with deep snow that constantly stopped Odd-Knut 's dogs . |
| 26 | Then pulled himself up short before he inadvertently mentioned Bliss 's warning that the shipment was destined for an Iranian terrorist faction . |
| 27 | By no coincidence , however , two big European banks whose calamitous go-for-growth strategies in the late 1980s much resembled Citicorp 's are looking for bosses . |
| 28 | This was why they adamantly opposed Lenin 's vision of the Party . |
| 29 | If he had not tried to cancel it ( and so murdered Macduff 's family ) , Macduff might not have killed him ; if he had not killed Duncan , he might conceivably have become king some other way . |
| 30 | He gently lifted Lachlan 's feet onto the bed and covered him with a plaid . |