Example sentences of "'s [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 2 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 3 | Guido 's totally unexpected reference to Arnie , and the way he 'd cocked his head at her and smiled as he 'd said it , had thrown her and made her feel totally vulnerable . |
| 4 | That was the end of Roman 's wryly murmured response to something else Salvo had said . |
| 5 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 6 | Many government documents , passports , residence cards , even the road-signs , appeared in both French and Arabic — as they still do in General Gouraud 's strangely conceived republic to this day . |
| 7 | Franco 's thinly veiled reference to a difference of opinion with his Italian and German collaborators was an understatement of the truth . |
| 8 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 9 | Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes . |
| 10 | Microsoft 's publicly announced commitment to multi media has spawned a host of products , but what is multi media and what can it do for you ? |