Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each labourer 's unit it comes to one hundred and fifty with the land . |
| 2 | We have a portion to give away for each reader 's letter we print . |
| 3 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 4 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 5 | For this month 's Esquire he has interviewed former South African hit man Dirk Coetzee ( page 82 ) . |
| 6 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 7 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 8 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 9 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 10 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 11 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 12 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 13 | After four years ' courtship they were married in 1874 — he was 34 , she 33 . |
| 14 | The spring day was unseasonably warm , and after two hour 's tuition she went into the clubhouse . |
| 15 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 16 | After last year 's success he has appeared on TV and radio all over the world and has been signed up by three advertising agencies . |
| 17 | I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April ! |
| 18 | At the beginning of each day 's trading you will be given a small amount of money ( eg £20 ) in small change , to put into the till . |
| 19 | After 10 minutes of this week 's edition I was too embarrassed to go on listening . |
| 20 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 21 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 22 | I du n no quite how erm er much er of other people 's conversation it 's picking up but it 's probably picking me up er |
| 23 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 24 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |
| 25 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |
| 26 | In the course of two years ' research he 's discovered a great deal but admits there are gaps that he would like to fill . ‘ |
| 27 | Well I have to say that as a result of last night 's session I have a much healthier view of Hydro Electric and I do so would I have got that from the programme ? |
| 28 | is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours . |
| 29 | there 's the banker , What 's with this banker 's order I do n't deal with a banker 's order . |
| 30 | On the other hand , he clearly looks to God as his Father , and into this Father 's hand he commits his spirit when he dies . |