Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 2 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 3 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 4 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
| 5 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 6 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 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 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 9 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 10 | 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 . |