Example sentences of "[pron] 's [noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seymour Siegal wrote ‘ In everyone 's heart stirs a great homesickness , ’ Leonard Cohen 's home is itself a symbol of such homesickness ; not a gesture , but an emblem of man 's existential isolation and alienation , which he represents discreetly , without ever advertising it . |
| 2 | and everyone 's pain has a different smell . |
| 3 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 4 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 5 | All we have are conflicting beliefs — no solid facts , so thinking about one 's death seems an impossibility . |
| 6 | Nevertheless one 's duty undergoes a complete change in such circumstances . |
| 7 | To make such an abstraction is to remove oneself to so rarefied a plane that the object of one 's interrogation becomes an eternal category and is therefore a pointless exercise . |