Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentlemen did n't clout their womenfolk about , beat them , bruise them , tie them up and whip them … or whatever jolly games Johnny 's preferences led him to pursue . |
| 2 | many children 's solicitors found it difficult to determine the child 's competence to give instructions . |
| 3 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 4 | Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations . |
| 5 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 6 | Her room was pleasant and airy ; a front room , probably the best in the house , and Aunt Louise 's possessions gave it quite an air . |
| 7 | The mission 's opponents said they would appeal . |
| 8 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 9 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 10 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 11 | However , it does seem likely that his father 's views influenced him even so early . |
| 12 | It was her duty to tell me — a ‘ mother 's duty ’ — that my obstinate refusal to comply with Jean-Claude 's wishes meant I was becoming a burden to him . |
| 13 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 14 | Roman 's lips sought hers passionately and she held nothing back . |
| 15 | She arched her neck in delight as Travis 's lips left hers and set out in a heated exploration of the sensitive skin of her throat . |
| 16 | As Harry 's lips met hers , Madeleine gave a long , trembling sigh . |
| 17 | The shock of hearing such an expression in the accents of Hollywood gangsterese come from Antony 's lips pulled her up sharply . |
| 18 | By 1935 the success of the children 's books made it possible for Ransome to buy a sea-going boat once again . |
| 19 | people who were not regular paper readers relied more on television , while Guardian readers relied more on the press ; but a plurality of every other paper 's readers said they found press and television equally useful . |
| 20 | Tom 's words struck me as unthinking and insensitive ; Terry was so obviously unhappy about the whole thing . |
| 21 | But the images of violence and tragedy evoked by Nathan 's words chilled her , and gooseflesh pimpled her arms . |
| 22 | To be sure of providing physicists with details of the world beyond the standard model , the SSC 's designers decided it had to be able to make particles with masses of one trillion electron volts ( 1TeV ) . |
| 23 | Ansel Key 's subjects knew they were not going to be starved to death , being part of a controlled experiment under constant medical supervision , so in their cases the implications of hunger were not life-threatening . |
| 24 | Its yellow-black devil 's eyes haunted her . |
| 25 | Thomas 's eyes forced her to take account of something different in herself and to begin to value it . |
| 26 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 27 | Jack 's eyes followed her in admiration . |
| 28 | Penny 's eyes followed it u it darted upward — and then they became riveted . |
| 29 | And Fand 's eyes met hers , all their depths waking in recognition . |
| 30 | Benedict 's eyes met hers in triumph as she turned a fierce look of venom upon him . |