Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 2 | You ca n't expect her to get them in on a student 's grant . ’ |
| 3 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 4 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 5 | ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice . |
| 6 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |
| 7 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 8 | We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall . |
| 9 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 10 | ‘ Like something out of a kid 's lesson book , is n't he ? ’ chuckled Iris . |
| 11 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 12 | ‘ … so please join me now for a minute 's silence in memory of Dominic Wetherby . |
| 13 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sold him on without a vet 's certificate , eh ? ’ the Archdeacon snuffled through his nose . |
| 15 | It featured a Carolyn no less real than herself : her double , her living image , separated from her only by a second 's timing in a rainsoaked dash across Leap Lane . |
| 16 | But , but i i i i if you went yes I mean er in a sense that th there are one possibility is to redistribute the land , and do that equally , but if , if there , there was not enough land to bring everybody up to subsistence level er I mean some were , the , the argument is there was n't enough land to bring everybody up to a landlord 's subsistence level . |
| 17 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 18 | Bjorn Kristensen is very much in Keegan 's plans but the Newcastle boss does n't want to rush him back after a season 's absence following a knee operation . |
| 19 | She hauled him out like a conjuror 's rabbit out of a hat . |
| 20 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |
| 21 | If there 's any oil or gas , they 'll hit it in about a fortnight 's time at 4,000ft — 5,000ft : |
| 22 | and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park . |
| 23 | Opting for a vast lunch in a pub , he ordered the dish of the day — haggis — then topped it off with a ploughman 's lunch and the landlady 's home-made black bun , much to the amazement of the proprietors . |
| 24 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 25 | He sticks one between his teeth but does n't light it — just holds it there like a storeman 's pencil . |
| 26 | I lay it neatly over a Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box . |
| 27 | This is real wilderness — we met no-one else in a day 's walking . |
| 28 | This explains the emergence of out-placement counsellors , consultants who specialise in aiding out-of work executives to sell themselves effectively in a buyer 's market . |
| 29 | But not for long , for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat 's cradle . |
| 30 | As well as the names of cities , coin inscriptions can tell us much about a city 's institutions and individuals . |