Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1813–14 the English were back in Bayonne , this time as the besiegers , when the Duke of Wellington 's army drove Napoleon 's troops out of Spain and back within their own borders . |
| 2 | After Tuesday 's goings on , he frankly did not give a Castlemaine XXXX for his chances of being called to the rostrum . |
| 3 | The man pulls Andy 's trousers down ; I can see Andy looking round groggily . |
| 4 | Marie began to put Bella 's slippers back on . |
| 5 | Small groups drifted through the classroom : mothers and fathers , large numbers of children — Edward 's pupils along with older and younger siblings . |
| 6 | ‘ Bob , will you take Mr Trumper 's things up to his room ? ’ |
| 7 | A more general sense of difficulty in sustaining order and regularity in the early twentieth century underlies Lily Briscoe 's comments in To the Lighthouse when she remarks that an artist 's brush may be the ‘ one dependable thing in a world of strife , ruin , chaos ’ ( Woolf 1927 and 1973 : 170 ) . |
| 8 | It now seemed that military action to push Tito 's forces out of the area might be the only course . |
| 9 | Bergson stepped back , shaking Sung 's hands off . |
| 10 | Meg , who thought things ought to be done properly , invited Alan 's parents round for tea , just before Christmas . |
| 11 | Then one of the chimps , Judy , tried to pull Frank 's trousers off . |
| 12 | She pulled Fergus 's shoes off and nodded to the door . |
| 13 | Linda took Anthony 's shoes off . |
| 14 | It was a ballet about slum dwellers , set surprisingly to Weinberger 's Variations on ‘ Under the spreading chestnut tree ’ , in which John had a comic role as a social worker . |
| 15 | Watching the BMW ease out into the traffic a few minutes later and accelerate away along the road , Harry turned Nadine 's words over in his mind . |
| 16 | Robocop Two where they chopped Simon 's legs off ? |
| 17 | … took all Karen 's things out of her house ? |
| 18 | Sweat flowed from Léonie 's armpits down to her waist . |
| 19 | He also turned Sunderland 's finances round by reaching the Milk Cup final . ’ |
| 20 | Benjamin 's pivotal notion of ‘ allegory ’ can be understood as similar to the neo-Kantian sociologization of Kant 's categories in , for example , Weber 's types of social action or Durkheim and Mauss 's primitive classifications . |
| 21 | He and Antonio whip Claudio 's emotions up in verse with their threatened challenge , a level of seriousness from which Claudio gratefully subsides into prose for the scene in which he and Don Pedro mock Benedick ‘ the married man ’ , gulled by them into loving Beatrice . |
| 22 | He wanted to smash William 's teeth in , he wanted to kick him all round the airfield . |
| 23 | In the meantime he sent back parcels full of toys to keep William 's spirits up ; wonderful toys like an electric train with a cowcatcher and a working headlight on the front and models of Liberators and Mitchell bombers and a replica of a Colt Peacemaker in a real leather holster . |
| 24 | Benjamin pulled Wolsey 's warrants out of his wallet . |
| 25 | The City welcomed the purchase by marking Reed 's shares up 9p to 410p , but was more surprised by News Corporation 's acquisition of the textbook publishing arm of Time-Warner . |
| 26 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 27 | ‘ So now we simply wash Graham 's clothes along with the rest of the family 's laundry , ’ says Kathleen , ‘ although at times we have tried powders for hyper-sensitive skins . ’ |
| 28 | He could see Everett 's trips up to London , in the days before the electrification of the Wimbledon Railway . |
| 29 | On 23 October 1940 , with France effectively under German control and Mussolini 's troops about to invade Greece , Franco and Hitler met on the Hispano-French border , at the railway station in Hendaye . |
| 30 | " Having seen so many such unions started in the past , they knew that the new union would disappear in the same way as the others " , and good humouredly laughed Wilson 's overtures out of court . |