Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 2 | Their stories appear to rupture time , bringing them within a hair 's breadth of one another . |
| 3 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , preserve me from a woman 's corn . |
| 5 | It is not only advantageous for us to know which of a horse 's emotions are destructive to us having a good working relationship with it ; but ideally , if we also consider horse will do more for us and give us greater pleasure . |
| 6 | We tried one on a child 's jumper , chest size 66cm ( 26″ ) , using the template for children 5–8 , and this worked out very well . |
| 7 | Give him a mug of cocoa and a big kiss and send him on a month 's leave . |
| 8 | A seagull on one of the lifeboats regarded us with a voyeur 's eye . |
| 9 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 10 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 11 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 12 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 13 | The dress curved over her breasts lightly , cupping them like a man 's hands . |
| 14 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 15 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 16 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |
| 17 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 18 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 19 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 20 | John Major has launched another attack on the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty , dismissing it as a socialist 's charter . |
| 21 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 22 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 23 | But links them in a bird 's inhuman joy |
| 24 | ‘ Well , Mother , we 'll see you in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll see you in a week 's time , so I will . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll see you in a week 's time , Nick ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Fenella can follow you in a day 's time . ’ |
| 28 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 29 | At a Panel Hearing , the three panel members selected from a pool of serving members , one acting as chairman of the session , consider everything about a child 's life . |
| 30 | He said to go away and come back and see him in a year 's time . ’ |