Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 3 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 4 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 5 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 6 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |