Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] 's [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , his typical scientific ‘ problem ’ — how many icebergs would be needed to supply Los Angeles with water — is merely a schoolchild 's exercise in numerical estimation , without any research content . |
| 2 | His Spanish ADC , General Alava , however , remembered to his dying day the way his heart sank on hearing his Commander cheerfully giving orders for ‘ cold meat at dawn ’ before a long day 's reconnaissance , or perhaps a day 's hunting in Portugal with his ‘ family ’ . |
| 3 | There was only a year 's difference in our ages . |
| 4 | IN A LONG and distinguished career , Malcolm Marshall had won almost everything , but not a winner 's medal in a Lord 's cup final . |
| 5 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 6 | It was the sort of car that a successful young man bought for himself , not a woman 's car in the generally used sense of the phrase , nor a car that a man would choose for a woman . |
| 7 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 8 | There is also a King 's standard in store in one of the cedar drawers . |
| 9 | Brought up a gardener 's son in Surrey , a country cottage had been his dream . |
| 10 | To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service ) |
| 11 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 12 | Judge Lee spoke out at Hereford Crown Court as he took pity on jobless Robert Ward , 20 , who held up a solicitor 's office in Ross-on-Wye . |
| 13 | This extended critical evaluation is a rarity in a survey , but very welcome in the way it spells out a connoisseur 's response in formal terms to a work of art . |
| 14 | I am the Countess , no , the Princess Ludmila Hohenkopetal , imprisoned by my cruel stepfather because I wish to marry the impecunious Lieutenant Longlegs who is really a king 's son in disguise . |
| 15 | Billet , codling , flatfish , mackerel and whiting from the piers or the beach ; there 's even a children 's corner in the harbour . |
| 16 | There is n't a man 's magazine in the whole thing . |
| 17 | ‘ And that being the case , ’ the Doctor said , wandering again into the twining array of whorls , blocks and threads , ‘ Pool has n't a snowflake 's chance in hell of pulling it off . ’ |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Doubtless a person 's behaviour in choosing between alternatives is observable in a way in which his felt satisfaction or dissatisfaction is not . |
| 19 | We had been snorkelling together in the shallow reefs when we found the most beautiful octopus , barely a hand 's breadth in size , which rhythmically glowed with vivid blue circles . |
| 20 | Out of necessity , publishers have an eye to their profits and neither a work 's inclusion in a catalogue or collection , nor instant popularity , guarantees its suitability . |
| 21 | There is never a moment 's dullness in The Allegory of Love . |
| 22 | It was certainly a bowler 's day in favourable conditions , 32 wickets falling for 294 runs . |