Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 2 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 3 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 4 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 5 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 6 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 7 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 8 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 9 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
| 10 | The thirty days ' standard he applies to his suppliers is the thirty days standard he expects from his customers . |
| 11 | In all probability , however , in the modern solicitors ' partnership it will have been agreed to leave goodwill out of account ( see below ) . |
| 12 | I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited . |
| 13 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
| 14 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 15 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 16 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 17 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 18 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 19 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 20 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 21 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 22 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 23 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 24 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 25 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 26 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 27 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 28 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 29 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 30 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |