Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If you kept it up to three months there 's cat in hell 's chance you 'll lose it after that .
2 Martin Fleischmann told me how over a whiskey in Pons ' kitchen he remarked , ‘ It 's a billion to one chance , shall we do it ? ’ and Pons replied , ‘ Let's have a go . ’
3 Before Seb could decide whether he wanted to spend the evening in Melody 's company she was following close behind the gang-boss .
4 Away from the city centre , the Charlottenburg Palace and the Spandau Citadel are among the bestknown sights , whilst back in Berlin 's heart you can now wander the previously verboten Brandenburg Gate .
5 ‘ Well , if you put that woman in Ma 's place I 'll never forgive you . ’
6 Bukharin began his critique by quoting from a letter written by Marx to his friend Kugelmann on 11 July 1868 , and since it is a keystone in Bukharin 's case it is well worth reproducing the same extract here .
7 There was a suggestion in Bridget 's tone she did not want to respond to .
8 For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) .
9 In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong .
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