Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , males are sexual opportunists and if they come across another male 's female they will try to mate with her . |
| 2 | " It looks as though it 's over wi' awd Blossom , then , " he said , and rested his hand briefly on the old cow 's back It was an enormous , work-swollen hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 4 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 5 | This means that when they watch another group 's work they are affected by what they do , they 're all working within the same fictional context . |
| 6 | In the old King 's time he was in the garrison of the Tower , then he went abroad with others to fight in Outremer . ’ |
| 7 | I have driven along that road to Scotland many times and I know that beyond my hon. Friend 's constituency it is not so good . |
| 8 | If you follow this day 's eating you will get through only 2,778 calories . |
| 9 | there 's the banker , What 's with this banker 's order I do n't deal with a banker 's order . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to think sometimes that if I did n't have a proper night 's sleep I 'd never be able to work again . |
| 11 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 12 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 13 | German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism . |
| 14 | and that 's why when we experience different people 's training you get different sort of views and feelings from it because their learning style is actually pushing through sometimes sometimes it suits us and sometimes it does n't . |
| 15 | Cos if you 're thinking the way they carry the baby it 's an old woman 's tale I think , I never used to think |
| 16 | On the other hand , he clearly looks to God as his Father , and into this Father 's hand he commits his spirit when he dies . |
| 17 | In this month 's Surgery we shall be describing a simple method of measuring unknown capacitors . |
| 18 | For this month 's Esquire he has interviewed former South African hit man Dirk Coetzee ( page 82 ) . |
| 19 | In this month 's column we 're taking a close look at jazz chord concepts . |
| 20 | In this month 's safari we focus on the Dragonfly Nymph |
| 21 | In this month 's competition you could win a prize patio worth £3,000 , designed and built by a Chelsea medal-winner |
| 22 | In this month 's SMALLHOLDER we focus on organic growing . |
| 23 | In this month 's article we will concentrate on some examples where the double stops are all derived from chords . |
| 24 | In this month 's article I will be discussing this and in passing we can look at the wider aspects of how techniques and paddle strokes are developed . |
| 25 | But after a further month 's reflection she changed her mind and wrote to Moira that it was up to her to do something about ‘ the incompetence of your staff at Harriet Street [ which ] is now causing BA and myself sleepless nights ’ . |
| 26 | After 10 minutes of this week 's edition I was too embarrassed to go on listening . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If she dreamed of him again it would be this man 's face she would see . |
| 29 | I might even see the remainder of my old Hyundai back on my desk as a loaner while ADM irons out the inevitable bugs in this Frankenstein 's monster I 'm creating . |
| 30 | As I passed the table with the remains of the old man 's meal I saw what seemed to be the only form of ornament in the cottage , a cracked vase holding a magnificent bouquet of carnations . |