Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An advertising agency normally takes over a client 's advertising for a fee , or for a percentage of the amount of money the client spends on television time or space in newspapers , magazines or poster sites . |
| 2 | That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton . |
| 3 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 4 | Follow-up action can even be taken on a client 's behalf after a telephone consultation . |
| 5 | Now , his team-mates — all £14m worth of them — reckon the kid who was brought up a stone 's throw from Ibrox is even better . |
| 6 | Of course , if it should offer compensation in this case , the Government would open up a Pandora 's box of claims from other similar cases . |
| 7 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 8 | Louis 's prompt remarriage , in 819 , to Judith , daughter of Count Welf , opened up a Pandora 's box of possibilities . |
| 9 | Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point . |
| 10 | Brighten up a child 's room with one of these near-fluorescent carpet designs from the Prime Movers collection by Tomkinson Carpets . |
| 11 | As might be expected , the move has stirred up a hornet 's nest of academic fear and loathing against USL and has created a cadre of naive tech weenies ready to form a lynch mob . |
| 12 | But why stir up a hornet 's nest by accusing Erdle when murder has n't been mentioned ? ’ |
| 13 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 14 | A medical orderly and a nurse patch up a competitor 's foot during a break in the Nijmegen Marches |
| 15 | The likeliest explanation seemed to be that , in the autumn of 1986 , Control had indicated to the DEA that Coleman had worked for the DIA in the past but , as he was no longer active , the agency had no objection to his taking up a consultant 's job with Hurley on Cyprus . |
| 16 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 17 | Brought up a gardener 's son in Surrey , a country cottage had been his dream . |
| 18 | An advertising campaign may create or build up a shop 's reputation by using a particular approach or ‘ angle ’ . |
| 19 | 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 ) |
| 20 | This smaller team takes records to shops which have a high singles turnover and also carries the most popular current albums to top up a shop 's supply of its best-selling products . |
| 21 | ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | The people divided : Magharba to the north , Zuwaya to the south ; and the committee marshalled the Magharba into the northwesterly quarter ; they set up a teller 's desk near the goalposts , and the voters walked behind the goal-posts ; past a clerk , returning to the pitch where they watched , chatted , and listened to the count . |
| 24 | , President Bush has set up a President 's Commission on Environmental Quality , whose brief is to report within two years on ways in which the marketplace may be tapped for environmental protection . |
| 25 | But he stood by his decision to give Robert Ward , 20 , probation for holding up a solicitor 's office with a starting pistol . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However that may be , Mr. Hughes engaged the appellant to sort out a year 's tax against payment to be made on a monthly basis . |
| 28 | The son of Tony and Monica Dickinson , who respectively preceded and succeeded him in charge at Poplar House , Harewood ( not far from Leeds in Yorkshire ) , Michael Dickinson had ridden 378 winners in eleven seasons as a jockey before taking out a trainer 's licence for the 1980–1 season . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She wanted to throw a party on the ladybird day and made the mistake of wiping out a week 's work with a red wine jag by way of celebration . |