Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 2 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 5 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 6 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 7 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 8 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 9 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 10 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 11 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 12 | Oh she has enough certificates to of gone to teachers ' training college , now that , I always feel although I think she 's quite happy now , but for myself , for myself and I 'm always er tempted by the fact that they always have twelve weeks ' holiday you know , I mean in one go the teachers |
| 13 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 14 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
| 15 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 16 | The thirty days ' standard he applies to his suppliers is the thirty days standard he expects from his customers . |
| 17 | Then in about two weeks ' time we come to the carol service . |
| 18 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 19 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
| 20 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 21 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 22 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |