Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horses were quiet , three of them lying down , only Gary 's horse on its feet . |
| 2 | I phone Yvonne and William 's house but there 's only William 's voice on the answer-machine . |
| 3 | Paige would have risen , too , only Travis 's hand on her wrist exerted enough force to keep her where she was . |
| 4 | She had a spare pair , which saved not only Eva 's eyesight on that occasion but throughout the remainder of her tour up to Shetland . |
| 5 | Perhaps Gould 's work on snail speciation gives him some peculiarly perceptive insights into the baseball world . |
| 6 | For my part I would have to decide how much I could tell her without giving away Neil 's presence on Moila . |
| 7 | Motorola Inc 's semiconductor chief James Norling is moving to Europe to head up Motorola Europe , Middle East and Africa , succeeding David Bartram , who is retiring June 30 after 32 years : Thomas George , executive vice-president and assistant general manager of the Semiconductor Products group , will take over Norling 's post on April 1 . |
| 8 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |
| 9 | Thus Moore 's position on the rightness and wrongness of actions is a form of rigoristic utilitarianism in which effects in terms of intrinsic good and bad replace effects in terms of pleasure and pain . |
| 10 | Thus Evans-Pritchard 's work on the magic and religion of the Azande , and on the political systems of the Nuer , and Malinowski 's investigations among the Trobriand islanders established a new style and standard for this kind of academic scholarship . |
| 11 | Usually God 's blessing on the fruit of the land is sought , with a reading and prayers said in some field or farmyard . |
| 12 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 13 | Hence Bott 's concentration on orgasm . |
| 14 | At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service . |
| 15 | Before a scramble up Cust 's Gully on Great End , I consulted Wainwright 's Southern Fells and Scrambles in the Lake District by P.B. Evans . |
| 16 | Tom has to get back tomorrow , so Odd-Knut decides to circle the peak ahead and rejoin our outward trail to pick up Nat 's sledge on the way back . |
| 17 | Weston 's 1920 From Ritual to Romance gave him the tarot pack and backed up Frazer 's emphasis on links between sexuality and religion . |
| 18 | And there are compensations , notably Venus 's arrival on the 13th in the romantic , creative and social centre of your horoscope . |
| 19 | One of his favourite after-dinner stories revolves around the 1979 League Cup final win against Southampton , when Clough surprised the players by lifting his customary bedtime curfew the night before Forest 's descent on Wembley . |
| 20 | The group claimed to have executed him in October 1985 following Israel 's air-raid on the PLO headquarters in Tunis . |
| 21 | When the police straightened out Innocent 's body on the ground , know what they found in his hand , hey ? |
| 22 | Wycliffe asked Curtis to point out Riddle 's yard on the map . |
| 23 | Foster fully supports the International Agreement signed in Montreal to eventually phase out society 's dependence on these products which have important uses in refrigeration , air-conditining and foam-blowing . |
| 24 | Lawrence McGinty , late of these pages and now science 's man on Channel 4 's news programme — had the indignity of being the first to be ejected from the balloon . |
| 25 | We will encounter here Williams 's emphasis on the city as a ‘ front ’ region : a romantic place representing a better life over the horizon is common . |
| 26 | The one to watch would be tomorrow morning 's debate on the Government 's immigration policy . |
| 27 | Even Gloucester 's attack on their inheritance , usually a sensitive issue with the political community , does not seem to have met with resistance . |
| 28 | Even Gloucester 's attack on their inheritance , usually a sensitive issue with the political community , does not seem to have met with resistance . |
| 29 | Rain said not quite , and enquired how Emelda 's book on the subjection of Italian women was going . |
| 30 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |