Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | If the officer is satisfied with the suspect 's response he need not proceed with the search . |
2 | In today 's money it would be about thirty five million . |
3 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
4 | Following J. S. Coleman 's terminology we can say that ‘ the effect of political interest on awareness of opinion polls was 41 per cent ’ in the pre-Campaign Wave . |
5 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
6 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
7 | Though in Alan 's case you might be right . ’ |
8 | Yeah , but in fact , in Betty 's case you can see the difference |
9 | Our Development Steering Group met in April and because we were by then well into our financial year it was decided that with an all out effort on everyone 's part we should be able to raise the £8000 for 1988 . |
10 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |
11 | Unfortunately the conscientious student who reads the official reports will find no mention either of the Hotspur or of the Félicité and may naturally experience doubts as to whether there ever was a Captain Hornblower , but if he once accepts Hornblower 's existence he may at least agree that Hornblower 's action in this case displayed remarkable self-denial as well as the clarity of vision worthy of a hero of fiction . |
12 | ‘ I am convinced that if the people of Cheltenham had been blind and not seen the colour of John Taylor 's skin he would have been elected , ’ said Mr Nick Leach , secretary of a Cheltenham Tory ward . |
13 | And after the day 's play they will attend a grand dinner when Tet-ley 's £500,000 cheque will be handed to the Variety Club . |
14 | If you were to measure the diameter of the Shuttle 's orbit it would be longer than it would be if the Earth were n't there . ’ |
15 | ‘ If I want to miss a pauper 's grave I 'll have to go . ’ |
16 | Before Christ 's mass I will be gone , back into the world . |
17 | She knew that in Paul 's presence she would be incapable of saying : ‘ I no longer want to be with him . ’ |
18 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
19 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
20 | If we ca n't find Simonica 's mum we must prove that we made very effort to . |
21 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
22 | In the writer 's experience it will be sufficient to lodge with the application : ( i ) an explanation as to why the application has not been signed by both proprietors ( eg the parties are separated and the husband refuses to reply ) ; ( ii ) a copy of the notice of severance ; and ( iii ) a certificate of posting of the notice and confirmation of delivery . |
23 | ‘ If that gal gets to the keeper 's cottage he 'll phone the police an' we 'll be for it . ’ |
24 | He glanced at his watch ; less than five minutes , and as he trotted along to intercept the postman 's route he could n't come up with any plan that seemed remotely workable . |
25 | ‘ Captain Meredith 's nigger it 'll be , and I 'll thankee to get back to th'work , Sally Dade , — said Salt . |
26 | Since the dual task paradigm is the one normally considered in relationship to Easterbrook 's hypothesis it should be noted that at least one alternative paradigm , perceptual dominance , produces completely contrary results , in non-aroused conditions central stimuli dominate attention while with mild arousal peripheral stimuli dominate ( Shapiro , Egerman & Klein , 1984 ; Shapiro & Johnson , 1987 ; Johnson & Shapiro , 1989 ; Shapiro & Lim , 1989 ) . |
27 | True , even costumed thus as a Trader 's mistress she would be armed — with a garrotte or two , some tiny digital weapons for slipping on to her fingers , phials of the chemicals she used . |
28 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
29 | Away from the city centre , the Charlottenburg Palace and the Spandau Citadel are among the bestknown sights , whilst back in Berlin 's heart you can now wander the previously verboten Brandenburg Gate . |
30 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |