Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass . |
| 2 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
| 3 | It 's thought that immediately after orgasm , a sedative chemical floods through a man 's brain — making him very sleepy , unless he fights against it . |
| 4 | When Pound in an early Canto includes among a hero 's conversational topics |
| 5 | Its croak sounds like a smoker 's cough . |
| 6 | Mansion House constable , a feeble old man whom the Lord Mayor suggests as a Catholic 's defence against the Gordon rioters ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) . |
| 7 | The problem with the conclusions in both sets of experiments is that they are based on the assumption that we can infer when an experience occurs from a subject 's verbal report . |
| 8 | If another stickleback swims into a male 's territory , the owner swims hard at the intruder , and drives it off . |
| 9 | If a child travels on a parent 's passport to Morocco , a photograph of the child suitably endorsed by the Passport Office must be in their passport . |
| 10 | Where a child appears before a children 's hearing and the hearing decide not to impose a supervision requirement , the rehabilitation period is six months . |
| 11 | Then there is Sebastian Faulks with A Fool 's Alphabet ( Vintage ) ; and , with the growing popularity of the B format intelligent woman 's read , do note Angela Huth 's charming tale Invitation to the Married Life ( Abacus ) . |
| 12 | So if that management committee decides in a year 's time or two year 's time thank you when when we 've been rolling on a bit and a lot of this has died down that they want a single headed project . |
| 13 | The law on open enrolment refers to a school 's ‘ standard number ’ . |
| 14 | The effect of contested takeover bids on a company 's share price may be seen from the 139 per cent increase in the price of Rowntree 's shares during the first six months of 1988 — the best performance of any share in the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 15 | Classically , learning LOGO begins with a child 's own sense of space . |
| 16 | The concept of the self develops from a child 's physical separation from the parents . |
| 17 | His head looks like a baby 's arse . |
| 18 | Official documentation depends on a tribe 's recognition by the United States government , and for tribes that never signed official peace treaties with Washington ( and many did not ) , members of those tribes lack certificates of official Indian ancestry . |
| 19 | But in another case , described by Chance , a gardener found two cuckoo chicks in a dunnock 's nest and both were reared successfully . |
| 20 | You think you 're so clever , Gianluigi , and that 's your problem , for your cleverness gleams like a wolf 's fangs . |
| 21 | Although the main result of dyslexia is the inability to read , there is a hidden problem in the damage dyslexia does to a child 's confidence , said Mr Bland . |
| 22 | The course consists of a year 's advanced study in one of the following honours schools : Animal Nutrition , Biochemistry , Neuroscience , Pathological Sciences , Preclinical Sciences . |
| 23 | During pregnancy , alcohol passes from a mother 's bloodstream into her baby through the placenta and can affect the baby 's development , particularly in the early stages of pregnancy . |
| 24 | The mines have long been closed but a relic survives in a blacksmith 's forge behind the crumbled walls . |
| 25 | The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village . |
| 26 | For example , if an adult asks of a two-year-old 's toy bear , Is that your toy ? , a typical response is No , it 's a bear . |
| 27 | The library doubles as a gentleman 's room , or , failing that ( for Kerr remarks elsewhere that ‘ the ladies are not exactly excluded ’ from it ) , they are sure to have the billiard-room to themselves , while the young of the sex may ‘ do as they like ’ in the odd room . |
| 28 | Tessiers sticks to a girl 's best friend |
| 29 | The story tells of a man 's journey of self discovery up an African River … and most of the shoot was done in tropical Belize . |
| 30 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |