Example sentences of "with a [noun] 's [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 2 | The desk clerk saw nothing unusual about Kragan ; he was just another businessman in a dark suit with a Liberty 's all-wool overcoat draped over his shoulders . |
| 3 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 4 | More youngsters are finding their own values clashing with a school 's social codes , some are picking up contradictory messages from the media and more are coming from broken or damaged families . |
| 5 | Bec , the girl with a badger 's furry snout and soft dark eyes , showed her the great sculleries where they all took turns to prepare the food . |
| 6 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 7 | The last five years have seen heavy investment in a fully integrated computer system that allows it to deal with a customer 's total needs in one phone call — ordering , cancelling and general enquiries . |
| 8 | Playing with a man 's bare bum |
| 9 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 10 | Similarly a private meeting with a person 's current boss can produce startling revelations ! |
| 11 | Weber , on the other hand , while agreeing that class had much to do with a person 's economic position within a social organisation of capital and labour , departed from this dualistic conception . |
| 12 | with a fortnight 's free board under our belt |
| 13 | The search for permanence , in our view , could be accomplished in many ways including custodianship , long-term fostering , or even in some circumstances a stay in a residential home or , of course , rehabilitation with a child 's natural family . |
| 14 | She had laughed , lived a perfectly normal life , shouldering the responsibility of being alone to bring up her daughter , but , with a child 's uncanny insight , Jenna had known that her mother had never recovered . |
| 15 | He was like a large , untidy St Bernard dog , with a dog 's unflinching devotion , so difficult to shake off . |
| 16 | We 'll be serving Corbieres full-bodied red and dry white wine from Languedoc in France , and we have a Krups Espresso/Cappuccino machine to give away , along with a month 's free supply of Lavazza coffee . |
| 17 | Some playing positions are prone to collide with a Floyd 's fine tuning system and this one seems to be especially sensitive . |
| 18 | He 'd sought her out in her sanctuary , confirmed her belief with the tender , arousing touch of the perfect lover , and she 'd learned enough from him to return his caresses with a woman 's intimate knowledge of how to pleasure the body of the man she loved . |
| 19 | Interwoven with a book 's personal testament is a public appeal for government sponsorship of the arts and against another English tradition ( philistinism ) , which the author identifies with Margaret Thatcher . |
| 20 | A man came to open it : he looked , Miranda thought , as if warnings against self-abuse might be true after all : whey-faced , with a camel 's twitchy nose , though he was probably not much older than she was . |