Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody ever got through Sybil 's guard . |
| 2 | Since it was to be a fortnightly , the best thing was to alternate with the other half of what passed for London 's alternative press , Private Eye . |
| 3 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 4 | And if you want to see what passed for America 's energy policy , you 're looking at it . |
| 5 | They met between George 's window and the open door at the end of the car and although at first they looked moderately at peace with each other , the encounter deteriorated rapidly . |
| 6 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
| 7 | We lost 0–2 but events were taking shape which were to bring the young goalkeeper to the fore : Coventry City swooped for Glazier 's signature in mid-October at a record fee for a goalkeeper of £35,000 . |
| 8 | She wanted to take that thick neck of his and press her fingernails , long and freshly varnished for Urquhart 's benefit , deep into the flesh until the cocky smirk on his face was replaced by a grimace of pain . |
| 9 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 10 | At the phone I rang the operator and asked for Addy 's number . |
| 11 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified this man as an accomplice of the two Libyans arrested at Dakar ( and subsequently released ) who took over from Ahmed Jibril after he asked for Gaddafi 's help . |
| 12 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 13 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 14 | Before they left , the counsellor asked for Peter 's permission to contact his GP , which he gave , and asked why . |
| 15 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 16 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications will send a group of telecommunications experts to Vietnam on April 10 to hold a seminar about infrastructure development in Japan : Vietnam 's Minister of Transport and Telecommunications asked for Japan 's co-operation in developing the country 's telecommunication networks when he visited Japan in February , the Ministry noted . |
| 17 | Bolté asked for Roberts 's advice on cutting administrative costs in Korea . |
| 18 | She later fought for women 's rights and social reform in the Alberta legislature at Edmonton , and represented Canada at the League of Nations . |
| 19 | At his consecration , he had promised to maintain Canterbury 's rights of every kind , from the primacy down to the smallest knight 's fee , and we have seen that in Rufus 's reign he allowed many , as we might think , greater matters to lie dormant while he fought for Canterbury 's rights . |
| 20 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 21 | Some wanted to press on with the war and argued for Mentheus 's son , Altheus . |
| 22 | Stephen Heath argued for MacCabe 's appointment on the grounds of the need to sustain the Cambridge English faculty as the " greatest in the world " . |
| 23 | Those great figures of the Enlightenment , William Robertson and David Hume , both argued for Mary 's guilt of adultery ( with Bothwell ) and murder ( of Darnley ) , on the grounds that the Casket Letters were genuine , in their histories of Scotland and England respectively which they published in 1759 ; and they in turn were attacked a year later by William Tytler , in his Historical and Critical Enquiry into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 24 | His shot crept through Miklosko 's legs and Micky Hazard made absolutely sure for Swindon . |
| 25 | Agnes asked after Kathleen 's health . |
| 26 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 27 | As we climbed , I asked after Rozanov 's wife , Sonia , and Sasha his son . |
| 28 | He and assistant Ray Clark re-signed after Leigh 's first win of the season , a 50-9 Lancashire Cup success over Third Division Chorley . |
| 29 | Bob Hope , the master of ceremonies for the umpteenth time , unfunnily and inaccurately joked about Dustin 's youthfulness , saying , ‘ They nominated a kid like Dustin Hoffman — he made a picture he ca n't get in to see . |
| 30 | Dr. Clarke had himself been a surveyor in the town in 1765 : he also cultivated the art of perspective drawing , examples of which can be seen in the plans he drew for Whitaker 's History of Manchester of 1765 and 1771 . |