Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 2 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 3 | ‘ … so please join me now for a minute 's silence in memory of Dominic Wetherby . |
| 4 | ‘ My pupils accompanied me here for a fortnight 's holiday during which they would acquire the art of fish cookery . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He sticks one between his teeth but does n't light it — just holds it there like a storeman 's pencil . |
| 9 | I lay it neatly over a Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box . |
| 10 | This is real wilderness — we met no-one else in a day 's walking . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But not for long , for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat 's cradle . |
| 13 | As well as the names of cities , coin inscriptions can tell us much about a city 's institutions and individuals . |
| 14 | Modern genetic engineers already have the technology to write the New Testament or anything else into a bacterium 's DNA . |
| 15 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |