Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been developed by a farmer 's wife . |
| 2 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 states that ‘ where a child has been notified that his case has been referred to a children 's hearing , he shall be under an obligation to attend that hearing in accordance with the notification , . |
| 3 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 5 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 6 | Her body had been sewn in a stag 's skin and the stone coffin sealed with lead and iron and bound with a heavy chain . |
| 7 | If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting . |
| 8 | Nicolo shifted unhappily in the little gilt chair that had certainly not been made for a man 's body . |
| 9 | A bad debt provision has been made against a customer 's debt where insolvency proceedings have recently commenced . |
| 10 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 12 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 13 | However , the ground sought had already been promised for a schoolmaster 's residence . |
| 14 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 15 | The fact that the car had been sold with a manufacturer 's warranty was irrelevant . |
| 16 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 17 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 18 | And her body , bearing one tiny mark , had been found with a bird 's head , near the barrow . |
| 19 | Sometimes small bungalows have been built in the grounds of residential homes , in other developments they have been linked to a warden 's bungalow by means of alarm bells . |
| 20 | He is consumed by the challenge of the world 's highest peaks , but this has been accompanied by a geographer 's fascination with visiting new places : a curiosity about the metaphysical undercurrents that accompany great risk ; a need to plumb the capabilities of mind and body and a corresponding empathy with mountain peoples who confront such tests in their everyday struggle with life . |
| 21 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 22 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 23 | Some of he old outhouses have been converted into a Wheelwright 's workshop , a Blacksmith 's forget and a Plumber/Tinsmith 's workshop . |
| 24 | He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ . |
| 25 | The other , at Ashton , is the second-century strip building with a wide entrance , which has been identified as a blacksmith 's shop and contained five identifiable furnaces , a stone-lined quenching tank and numerous tools and completed metal objects . |
| 26 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 27 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |
| 28 | Rebecque galloped back towards the Dutch battery , shouting at its Colonel to open fire on the concealed columns , but the Colonel was staring at one of his officers who had been killed by a skirmisher 's bullet . |
| 29 | A bright , positive girl was interviewing a vacuous-looking man on whose show a member of the public had recently been killed by a stuntsman 's cage falling on him . |
| 30 | An eleven year old boy who 's committed a string of motoring offences has been sent to a children 's centre two hundred miles from his home , because he keeps absconding . |