Example sentences of "of [noun] ['s] [noun sg] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knelt down and held it in front of Sung 's face a moment . |
| 2 | Of Bruce 's side a son shall come , |
| 3 | On the morning of Dobson 's funeral a bellhop knocked on 3D and handed Jed a big square box . |
| 4 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 5 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 6 | At the time of Chamlong 's announcement a number of other opposition figures had launched hunger strikes in protest at Suchinda 's appointment , but none were of Chamlong 's stature . |
| 7 | In what could be construed as an insensitive move , Lloyd 's ‘ Names ’ recently received in a separate envelope enclosed with their copies of Lloyd 's Log a letter from David Moore-Gwyn , Director of British Paintings at Sotheby 's . |
| 8 | Outside the front door of Boldwood 's house a group of men were talking quietly . |
| 9 | Sahlins , for instance , discussed the way the Hawaiian Islanders experienced the visit of Captain Cook , placing it within their own received cultural categories to give the empirical happening of Cook 's arrival a meaning . |
| 10 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 11 | She lacked his detachment and would not even have thought it morally desirable , believing the Byronic tag , " Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart : 't is woman 's whole existence . " |
| 12 | Her encounters with Timothy had continued and it was he who had told her of the birth of Andrew 's son a year after his marriage . |
| 13 | After fierce and bloody struggles on sea and on land in which much noble blood was spilled , alas , we were able to declare the day ours and the Battle of Sloop 's Bight a chapter in the history of God 's kingdom come . |