Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 2 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 3 | The name change , Avalon says , represents the company 's decision to reposition itself in the client/server market . |
| 4 | Robyn 's look left him in no doubt . |
| 5 | Indeed , at a certain point the stories come to seem almost like pauses , moments of reflection perhaps , in a wider discourse that envelopes the written word , such as to make the readers of Celati 's narrative acknowledge something in common with Palomar listening to his blackbirds , uncertain which part of their communication is language , which silence . |
| 6 | The Brackenburys ' near neighbours , the Hansards of Walworth , probably also had links with Gloucester although , as with many northern families , this can only be inferred from Richard 's willingness to use them in sensitive assignments after his accession . |
| 7 | The Brackenburys ' near neighbours , the Hansards of Walworth , probably also had links with Gloucester although , as with many northern families , this can only be inferred from Richard 's willingness to use them in sensitive assignments after his accession . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 9 | However in the second verse the reason in Gunn 's mind expresses itself in conflict with the attraction expressed in verse one : |
| 10 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 11 | Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss . |
| 12 | Dignan 's attempt to reformulate it in a ‘ progressive ’ way could therefore be seen as partisan , and therefore necessarily outside the ambit of a ‘ rights ’ approach . |
| 13 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 14 | Giving away 6lbs , Reg Hollinshead 's colt lost nothing in defeat , only buckling in the shadow of the post , having been under heavy pressure from well over a furlong out . |
| 15 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 16 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 17 | The Chief Constable had hissed at him : ‘ For God 's sake keep them in their seats . |
| 18 | ‘ For God 's sake put it in me . ’ |
| 19 | He was soon associated with a group around Sir John Vaughan [ q.v. ] , also including Sir Thomas Littleton and Sir Richard Temple [ q.v. ] , who frequently voiced concern during the 1660s that the restored government 's need to secure itself in power , coupled with Parliament 's Royalist enthusiasm , might lead to the erosion of England 's laws and liberties . |
| 20 | The less agreeable side of Mathilde 's nature revealed itself in her tendency to what the French call l'esprit démolisseur , a sort of wilful destructiveness , which led her to become a focus for the intellectually disaffected during the Empire . |
| 21 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 22 | If Burun 's refusal to place himself in a position of prominence by acting as Artai 's proposer was a subterfuge to disclaim his influence , then it was apparent that none of the Khans recognised it . |
| 23 | High quality opportunism like that is what Tranmere paid Everton £300,000 for but , until he scored , the travelling fans were entitled to question Nevin 's eagerness to involve himself in the game . |
| 24 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she responded brightly when the professor 's wife told her in which part of London they had their house . |
| 26 | The farmer 's wife held it in her arms , so that it could not jump at me . |
| 27 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 28 | Seasons : At an altitude of 2,475′ ( 750m ) , this mountain crag faces NE and gets morning sunshine , with the top third of Titan 's Wall receiving it in the evening . |
| 29 | Even , however , if it was rightly decided , it is remote from the present issue , since it proceeded on the basis that the giving of surety for a defendant 's bail created something in the nature of a civil debt . |
| 30 | As SCRAM 's magazine put it in 1978 : |