Example sentences of "[det] [noun] ['s] [noun] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 2 | This means that when they watch another group 's work they are affected by what they do , they 're all working within the same fictional context . |
| 3 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 4 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 5 | In this month 's column we 're taking a close look at jazz chord concepts . |
| 6 | After 10 minutes of this week 's edition I was too embarrassed to go on listening . |
| 7 | I might even see the remainder of my old Hyundai back on my desk as a loaner while ADM irons out the inevitable bugs in this Frankenstein 's monster I 'm creating . |
| 8 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 9 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 10 | Because of the immediate nature of such patients ' problems it is important that whatever form of help is offered should be available without too much delay , and for this reason health-centre-based therapists may be of particular value , as has been shown in the case of psychologists ( Robson et al. 1984 ) and social workers ( Shepherd et al. 1979 ) . |
| 11 | With a knowledge of each other 's roles they are able to predict and comprehend the actions of the other . |
| 12 | Then it 's that person 's prerogative it 's up to him if he wants to show everyone else where the water is . |
| 13 | Of all Elinor 's friends he was the least likely to be suspected of her murder . |
| 14 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 15 | For all George 's faults he was not a murderer . |
| 16 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 17 | In both characters ' lives it was mainly men who had oppressed them , for Phyllisia it was her father who preferred her sister , Ruby . |
| 18 | And I think that drug taking has always been here , it will probably always be here , but in most people 's life it 's a transient thing , it 's a phase perhaps erm as animals we like to change our mental state ? |