Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 2 | ‘ I go into a hairdresser 's hoping that a new me will emerge , ’ said Barbara Scott , a mother of three who works part-time . |
| 3 | ‘ If you understand me so well you 'll know what I think of a man 's opinions . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I practise as a ship 's doctor . |
| 7 | I do n't act like a man but I play in a man 's world . |
| 8 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 9 | oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The factors in any situation which contribute to a leader 's effectiveness are : |
| 13 | ‘ You mean like a soldier 's salute , sir ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That 's a bargain when you consider how much protection you get for a building 's contents alone , ’ says Kelly . |
| 15 | Coetzee understands both related forms : ‘ You get into a person 's private life , inside his inside . |
| 16 | I dare say he 's bred you true to a Welshman 's bounden duty , and taught you the sacredness of a blood debt , but I think it was not he who sent you here alone on such an errand . |
| 17 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 18 | Although we have some beautiful and rare things like a Queen Anne doll and the earliest-known example of a jigsaw puzzle , the things I love best are the most ordinary , fragile toys — the sort of things you find in a schoolboy 's pocket . |
| 19 | Here are some attractive places to bear in mind when you feel like a day 's outing . |
| 20 | I tell your dad cos he called you , he said that you go at a snail 's pace did n't he today ? |
| 21 | Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner 's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general 's map . |
| 22 | Detectives hunting the killer of a prostitute have set up a telephone hot-line for women who work in a city 's red light area . |
| 23 | This is a case in which we distinguish between a person 's body as it appears to that person , and as it appears to others . |
| 24 | We accept without a second 's thought that we can open our eyes and observe everything around us , picking out the slightest movement . |
| 25 | Even when we defer to a creature 's apparent preference ( for a particular type of food , let us say ) the decision will be dictated by our desire to keep it fit and healthy . |
| 26 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 27 | We move under a greengrocer 's awning , and he raises his walkie-talkie . |
| 28 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 29 | Club promotion reflects the importance of dance clubs and the contribution they make towards a record 's popularity . |
| 30 | The value of the heavy minerals is in the information they give on a sediment 's provenance , although their dissolution during diagenesis may result in modification to the original assemblage ( Morton , 1985b ) . |