Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 2 | THIEVES tried to break into a pensioners ' community centre just hours before a tombola to replace a stolen karaoke machine and cash . |
| 3 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 4 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 5 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 6 | His nose began to rotate like a rabbit 's . |
| 7 | Sunshine 855 began broadcasting from a farmer 's barn in the late seventies . |
| 8 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 9 | Cathy registered as a childminder when she started to look after a friend 's young son . |
| 10 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 11 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 12 | So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's . |
| 13 | Mr Tipping , from Cobham , Surrey , died in February during a reconstruction for BBC Television 's 999 series of a real-life incident in which a skydiver 's parachute became entangled in a plane 's wheels . |
| 14 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 15 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 16 | The skipper of the Lady Hamilton also had to cope with a bird 's nest on his reel halfway through the fight and had to strip off yards of line before he could resume the battle . |
| 17 | She looked over at the pile of burned clothing she had shed like a snake 's skin , and shuddered . |
| 18 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 19 | Yorkshireman Martin Sterne , from Ripon , had come for a week 's golfing holiday with three friends , bringing their own golf professional with them from England . |
| 20 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 21 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
| 22 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 23 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 24 | He had slept on a friend 's floor and spent a very uncomfortable night . |
| 25 | Breathless , she slowed to a walk through the lemon groves near the complex , and by the time she reached Monte Samana she had slowed to a snail 's pace . |
| 26 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 27 | Instead , he had to settle for a chemist 's shop , and though he still tried to behave like a doctor , it did n't work . |
| 28 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had run into a pensioners ' outing . |
| 30 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |