Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 2 | We tried one on a child 's jumper , chest size 66cm ( 26″ ) , using the template for children 5–8 , and this worked out very well . |
| 3 | A seagull on one of the lifeboats regarded us with a voyeur 's eye . |
| 4 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 5 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 6 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 7 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 8 | Valerie looked cautiously round , then , lowering her voice , said : ‘ Weeks ago our little kitten ran into the wood , and she caught him and turned him into a witch 's cat . ’ |
| 9 | Every hour after the operation , a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress ' graph . |
| 10 | Urquhart 's dark shining eyes followed her with a dog 's devotion ; evidently she had qualities other than beauty . |
| 11 | She then stabbed him with a butcher 's knife hidden in the bouquet . |
| 12 | Of course , they will remember which company treated them to a day 's sailing . |
| 13 | He died of distemper while I was away at St Aubyn 's ; the news overwhelmed me with a child 's grief . |
| 14 | Richard took her to a friend 's party and afterwards , when they were driving home , he said , ‘ You know what 's happened , do n't you ? |
| 15 | He wore it like a sommelier 's key , an order of merit or a symbol of kingship . |
| 16 | ‘ It reminded me of a friend 's hand . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You , Constable , said something about a conjuror 's patter . ’ |
| 18 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |