Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Asahi Juken 's fate hangs in the balance . |
| 2 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 3 | Perhaps Dmitrii Miliutin 's explanation of the Russian army 's deficiencies had struck home . |
| 4 | SO Allan Lamb 's reward for having the courage to speak out and tell the truth about the Pakistani ball-tampering was to be banned for two games and heavily fined — with the possibility of further punishment from the TCCB . |
| 5 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 6 | But it is perhaps David Lean 's film of Noël Coward 's Brief Encounter which lingers most forcefully in the mind . |
| 7 | Somebody 's been blown off the lighting rig — it 's OK , it 's only Richard Jobson 's brother — and the road crew are running around trying to get all the remaining equipment covered . |
| 8 | perhaps Saxton Bampfylde 's approach is an indication of the new style executive search of the 1990s and beyond ? |
| 9 | By ten they were fast asleep in each other 's arms , and so they missed , not only Jeffrey Archer 's party , but pictures on the telly of an angry Lady Thatcher , an indignant Jeffrey Archer , a statuesque Amaranth in chiffon , all against a background of racing cars , billowing smoke and licking flames . |
| 10 | Only Aunt Bella 's herb garden still seemed green . |
| 11 | So Sergeant Juron 's excuse might indeed have seemed only too plausible … |
| 12 | And before long Hawker Siddeley 's board of directors agreed to approach Unimation for a licence to make its robot in Britain . |
| 13 | So Mr Murray 's criticism does have an important grain of truth in it . |
| 14 | He was only Mr Laker 's friend . |
| 15 | Obviously Mr Pennington 's barn did n't suit — perhaps they objected to the campers . |
| 16 | So Roy Castle 's life proceeds a day at a time . |
| 17 | Just how much Mr Gorbachev 's armtwisting mattered is a matter of conjecture . |
| 18 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 19 | Perhaps Sir Ralph 's death had been the work of rebels and now they were back ? |
| 20 | In March only President Truman 's veto prevented the inclusion of Spain in the list of recipients of Marshall Plan aid , after it had been approved by Congress . |
| 21 | Instead we must present this sequence as entirely Waindell Leavitt 's folly , into which Claudia is drawn in some way to protect the Masai against manipulation . |
| 22 | Suddenly Mrs Thatcher 's authority in the party had strengthened and , by the end of May , all serious talk of resignation and leadership challenges had subsided . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The delivery came very quickly and so suddenly Mrs Busuttil 's recollection is the baby just fell out onto the table or whatever it was she was lying on . ’ |
| 24 | Ordinarily a ‘ deserving ’ widow might have sought the aid of various charities first , but apparently Mrs Woodward 's lack of deference made this impossible . |
| 25 | And so Mrs Zamzam 's family , perhaps irrevocably split by nationalities , was living only 15 miles apart , divided by the Israeli–Lebanese frontier . |
| 26 | In Taylor 's reign , only Trevor Steven 's effort in Russia earlier this year from a Nigel Clough pass stands out as an example . |
| 27 | Erm that 's for that reason I think there is a need to address these sort of er approaches in the the new structure plan policy and er I would dispute very much Professor Lock 's statement on them being being no changes since the nineteen eighties . |
| 28 | So Jack Hayward 's tribute to Graham Turner and the club programme looked fully justified but began to wear thin . |
| 29 | Wagner 's and later especially Adolf Loos 's functionalist critique of Ringstrasse symbolic monumentality underlines the elements of Baroque that underpinned Viennese modernity . |
| 30 | So far , only Hong Kong 's tourist trade has visibly suffered , with year-on-year visitor numbers down 22 per cent in July , and 17 per cent in August . |