Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh wha , what , what time are you over the girl 's house ? |
| 2 | ‘ Are you on the paper 's graduate trainee scheme ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | There had been something in the Wingco 's demeanour that Benson did not like much , however , a quietness , an air of brooding . |
| 4 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 5 | There may indeed be something in the Professore 's argument that the major fault of Marxism was to over-estimate man 's capacity for altruism , for purity , for in tellectual-philosophic sustenance . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I know , but I thought there might be one off the MD 's office . |
| 7 | ( b ) How important are they to the historian 's meaning ? |
| 8 | Are they in the library 's catalogue ? |
| 9 | So how much were they at the Swan 's then ? |
| 10 | However , it does not follow from this that there is nothing in an animal 's head , or that nothing useful can be said about it . |
| 11 | ‘ Whether a patient 's life is valuable or not is none of a doctor 's business , ’ James Munby QC for the Official Solicitor told them . |
| 12 | This is called ‘ snowflake ’ obsidian , and is something of a collector 's item . |
| 13 | The example cited is something like a dentist 's surgery where the system has to cope with payroll , patient records , appointments and the like . |
| 14 | On the surface , there is something in the government 's view . |
| 15 | Wherever we live , be it within a stone 's throw of Sellafield or in an area seemingly unaffected by the dumping of waste , we must not fall into the out-of-sight , out-of-mind approach adopted by much of industry . |
| 16 | ten to ten what , what is it on the chef 's programme ? , |
| 17 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 18 | What this sort of research will not have told you is anything about the advertising 's ability to stand out and attract attention when it appears in the chosen media . |
| 19 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 20 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |
| 21 | There was nothing in the girl 's present that remotely matched up to his past . |
| 22 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , he also clearly implied that it was none of the legate 's business . |
| 24 | He had thus seldom been cooler or more controlled than now , as he told McGann that yes indeed he had been travelling , and no , it was none of the Society 's business where or about what pursuit . |
| 25 | To some extent advertising was something of a gentleman 's game . |
| 26 | Which , from a man who had fought a hook for a goodly part of his life , was something of a collector 's item . |
| 27 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was something in the dowager-duchess 's voice that caused it , but Joan to her own dismay burst into tears . |
| 29 | Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘ dignity ’ was something like a woman 's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it . |
| 30 | It was true , as Tim had said , that the nearest keeper 's cottage was something like an hour 's hard tramp by footpath across the park and through the woods — but there was a short cut , if Mary dared take it . |