Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 2 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 3 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 4 | You special permission to encroach on all of the rich peasant 's land he rents out . |
| 5 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 6 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 7 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 8 | As I passed the table with the remains of the old man 's meal I saw what seemed to be the only form of ornament in the cottage , a cracked vase holding a magnificent bouquet of carnations . |
| 9 | " It looks as though it 's over wi' awd Blossom , then , " he said , and rested his hand briefly on the old cow 's back It was an enormous , work-swollen hand . |
| 10 | In the old King 's time he was in the garrison of the Tower , then he went abroad with others to fight in Outremer . ’ |
| 11 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 12 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 13 | What the plan ca n't do erm , is , I suppose , yeah wel , the only way you can deal with that , well , there 's one of two ways , you can set the plan up , erm , for full benefit let's say the salary was twenty thousand so by here you 're getting ten so you set the plan up , in retrospect for the same twenty thousand pounds , but at the six month 's stage you claim half of it yes , and at the twelve month stage , you 're now claiming the full benefit . |
| 14 | Webb , a Bristol surgeon , has secured the orthopaedic registrar 's position he sought but it will not , as initially feared , end his rugby career . |
| 15 | In the 1991 Chairman 's report it made clear the fact that the Buckfastleigh Branch having been leased in 1991 to the South Devon Railway Trust , showed only the fare income for the Paignton branch , hence a fall in turnover from the 1990 season , which included the fare income from the Buckfastleigh branch . |
| 16 | As they put the presents at the bottom of the sleeping child 's bed she said anxiously : ‘ Are you sure you think the umbrella 's a good idea ? |
| 17 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 18 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 19 | Suddenly all the gifts disappeared , and the pair were left only with the humble fisherman 's hut they owned to start with . |
| 20 | It is not the poor man 's shelter it pretends to be , but a rich man 's plaything , related to that larger Dairy House which Richardson 's heroine , Clarissa , inherits half a century earlier from her grandfather . |
| 21 | Speaking on the anniversary of the outrageous star 's death he said : ‘ My personal feeling is that we should never go out and try and be Queen again . ’ |
| 22 | But for the heavy torch in the older woman 's hand she might have been tempted to make a dash for it . |
| 23 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 24 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 25 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |
| 26 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 27 | After the first morning 's filming we assembled by the front door to go to Alexander 's house , half a mile away , for lunch . |
| 28 | And they both have the one man 's name I really ca n't stand . |
| 29 | By the time I 've finished with this room and had the forensic lab 's report I 'll be able to tell you a lot more than his mother ever knew about him . |
| 30 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |