Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] 's [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 2 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 3 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 4 | He knew instinctively that this was no casual conversation and that for Cora-Beth 's sake he must be honest . |
| 5 | For NME 's part we offer a celebratory discography , though the many US and Euro Sonic offerings have been omitted in order to keep the listing within the bounds of reason . |
| 6 | However , through Wiseman 's influence he was appointed a canon of St Peter 's , Rome , and a chamberlain to Pope Pius IX . |
| 7 | For Jeff 's sake I 'll agree to help you . ’ |
| 8 | When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke . |
| 9 | Three days after Calley 's conviction he freed him from jail pending his appeal and allowed him to live in his officer 's quarters . |
| 10 | ‘ Shortly after Sarah 's call I had a visit from Laura Passmore . ’ |
| 11 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 12 | Robert 's interests shifted to Hertfordshire in the late 1470s when he married the widow of Sir Ralph Josselin , but even before this he is never recorded as acting with the duke in the north , and after Richard 's accession he was to move into opposition , along with his brother Roger . |
| 13 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 14 | Piggy believed that he was perfectly innocent and after Simon 's murder he refused to believe that he had taken part in the killing . |
| 15 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |
| 16 | For the decade after Clovis 's death we hear little about his sons . |
| 17 | Soon after One-Leg 's publication I was lying in my bath in what is shown to visitors as Lord Anglesey 's Bathroom , looking out on the incomparable view of the Menai Strait with the majesty of Snowdon beyond , when a bold idea occurred to me . |
| 18 | A few years after Coleman 's death it contained dried specimens under an accumulation of discoloured varnish , plus an incomplete horse skeleton , but there was no catalogue . |
| 19 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
| 20 | Two days after Mungo 's arrival she was beginning to sound more friendly . |
| 21 | Hunter-Blair owed the paper much , and after MacQuillan 's death he was trying to hang on to his position . |
| 22 | A day or two after Nicholas 's death he decided to found a journal . |
| 23 | Very soon after Michael 's retirement he was asked to chair a review for government . |
| 24 | ’ Two years after James 's accident he was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state . |
| 25 | Through Roszak 's influence he had read Thomas Merton and Kenneth Rexroth , the anarchists Paul Goodman and Alex Comfort , and had absorbed the new literature of the civil rights movement , Liberation magazine . |
| 26 | In order to derive the general form of Faraday 's law we need to notice that motion of charge along the wire may be caused both by electric and magnetic fields . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : I fancy when I was of Pamela 's age I was pretty near as good as she . |
| 28 | Its initial success came chiefly in the traditional Dissenting districts , but by the beginning of Victoria 's reign it attracted people of all social backgrounds in almost every type of community except the estate village . |
| 29 | Despite the criticisms that can be made of Etzioni 's methodology it is valuable in identifying different types of organizational power and relating these to other organizational characteristics , including not only efficiency but also the types of members , clients , customers and other ‘ participants ’ that Etzioni felt should be included in the analysis of an organization 's existence . |
| 30 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |