Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim was nominated for the competition by Mrs Eunice Graham , who has won a year 's supply of free milk . |
| 2 | The Copyrights Company , specialist in merchandise licensing , has won a Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 3 | The bulk are sold in the U S A and Oxford recently won a Queen 's Award for export achievement . |
| 4 | the reporting accountant should have the power directly to request a firm 's balancestatement from the bank — this could be used prior to a ‘ spot check ’ ; |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll need a vet 's report to be sure . |
| 6 | The establishment of proper boundaries is clearly at issue in the use of linguistic structures that have the capacity to found a noman 's land between proper meanings and bounded territories , creating a zone of ambiguity . |
| 7 | This covers a person 's life for a specified term . |
| 8 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 9 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 10 | As a substitute Brian Whitaker , the second most experienced journalist continuously involved with NoS , was drafted to write a journalist 's case for the paper remaining in London . |
| 11 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 12 | Indeed in 1244 , Thurkleby J. disallowed a widow 's appeal of rape ‘ because a woman can only appeal concerning rape of her virginity . ’ |
| 13 | At the height of the club rivalry between Leeds United and Liverpool , he chose the showpiece Charity Cup Final of 1974 , to vent a nation 's revenge on Keegan . |
| 14 | Massine took this theme from Tchaikovsky 's own letters to his patron in which he described a composer 's search for ideas . |
| 15 | He could simply enjoy a tramp 's way of life , or take the micky out of such a life as this , but I think he is interested and wonders why and how , people take a person 's image for what is hidden deep down inside us , blocked off by an impression to put across . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld . |
| 17 | Oddly enough , Ghanashyam ( A Broken Branch ) approaches opera in the nature of the story it tells : originating in village festivities , the tale unfolds a rake 's progress towards perdition , in this case via drugs , but with an extra metaphysical twist when the spirit of the departed returns to inhabit his wife . |
| 18 | The wages councils ' minimum rates are far from a pathway to comfort and security , but they do often make the difference between keeping a family 's head above the water and going under . |
| 19 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 20 | Attempts to establish a people 's diet at any time is very difficult without supporting documentary evidence , however , as vital evidence might he missing . |
| 21 | Among women in the general population , having three or more children at home was found to increase a woman 's vulnerability to depression in the face of provoking agents . |
| 22 | Parents , relatives and foster parents may seek a residence order under s8 in order to secure a child 's release from care . |
| 23 | Widowed Mrs Fisher simply wants a lion 's share of peace and comfort . |
| 24 | We found a Pandora 's box of evidence in his fraudster 's den . ’ |
| 25 | the phone goes this morning , hop of Daisy , goes to answer it , Santa 's Grotto he says , a member of the public phoning to say that they found a child 's bag in the high street . |
| 26 | A total of five extra crew were taken on board over the next three months , including a new master , Edward Barker ; he found a ship 's company of nine men — Robert Gray , the steward , having died a day after Robert Titford . |
| 27 | A police frogman has told a court how he found a woman 's body at the bottom of the River Severn . |
| 28 | SHOCKED council officials found a mouse 's head in the kitchen when they raided Mr Wong 's Chinese takeaway . |
| 29 | Because three of the 20 ‘ global positioning ’ satellites will always be above the horizon the electronics can triangulate a car 's position within a few metres . |
| 30 | The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel . |