Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg ! |
| 2 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 3 | I stopped at a stationer 's and ordered two reams of Devon Valley Thin , two black ribbons to fit Toby 's portable , and a box of the best carbon papers . |
| 4 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 6 | When the break in the dull , rainy weather came I decided on a day 's search of the river foreshore . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 8 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I go into a hairdresser 's hoping that a new me will emerge , ’ said Barbara Scott , a mother of three who works part-time . |
| 10 | To distract myself , I went into a draper 's and bought a pair of knitting needles , a large supply of soft yellow wool and some nice simple patterns . |
| 11 | Following these up , I went into a chemist 's shop , introduced myself to the tall lady assistant and said that I was a friend of her future husband 's brother . |
| 12 | Well I went through a ship 's bridge , broke the wheel up top , I did , cos you , at that time , see how things improve all the time , now jib and all that is , that 's thirty five feet long . |
| 13 | ‘ If you understand me so well you 'll know what I think of a man 's opinions . ’ |
| 14 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 15 | I learned from a friend 's porno mag that men can buy |
| 16 | yes , and I live in a pensioner 's house , furthest away from the shopping centre and I 've got to take a taxi of one pound forty a day to shop |
| 17 | I practise as a ship 's doctor . |
| 18 | I do n't act like a man but I play in a man 's world . |
| 19 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 20 | Please could I ask for a moment 's silence and look to the north er we wil where we will have a dedication fly past by A-Tens of the Eighty-First Tactical Fighter Wing . |
| 21 | When Merrill did n't speak he said shortly , ‘ Of course , far be it from me to pry into a client 's financial arrangements , but it struck Bob as rather strange . |
| 22 | for one thing , the group did not choose the name , which came from a reviewer 's description of a painting by Monet . |
| 23 | Her paper The Eidoli and the Angeli is not a suitable one to read to the little study group which meets in a neighbour 's house : the group , it transpires , is actually in touch with the world of spirits . |
| 24 | This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras . |
| 25 | In Nikko v MEPC ( cited at 13.8.1 ) the expert arranged for the point of law to be decided as a preliminary issue at a formal hearing at which he was addressed by counsel and himself assisted by a Queen 's Counsel . |
| 26 | ‘ In many instances , ’ writes Godwin , ‘ these hotbeds fever and vice are so effectually hidden by goodly houses that the inhabitants of the latter are scarcely aware of the poverty and disease which exist within a stone 's throw from their own doors . ’ |
| 27 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 28 | William Riley Parker 's monumental biography of Milton , which appeared after a lifetime 's research in 1968 , resolutely portrays Milton 's involvement with the politics of the mid-seventeenth century as an unfortunate distraction . |
| 29 | Another pupil points to the subtleties of a process which strikes at a pupil 's identity : |
| 30 | However , what caught my imagination was the great Tor or hill overlooking the abbey which jutted like a giant 's finger up towards the heavens , making the small church on its summit a most suitable meeting-place between God and man . |