Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income support makes a person 's income up to a level set by the Government . |
| 2 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 3 | The much-maligned Forest 'keeper literally let two points slip away when he handed Andy Clarke a 12th-minute equaliser after Nigel Clough had got his dad 's team off to a flying start . |
| 4 | So she 's put Jack 's name down on a new Planning Register . |
| 5 | Neumann 's hanging on to a limited and personalized notion of what constitutes an Allegretto leads him to assume many things for which there is little foundation . |
| 6 | It was cruel , of course , to bring someone of Estabrook 's age out on a cold day , and make him climb a hill , but Gentle knew from experience you took whatever satisfactions you could along the way . |
| 7 | Alternatively , you can rock back into a cat stance knocking the opponent 's punch down with a slapping block performed with the rear hand . |
| 8 | The Social Climbers by Chris Darwin and John Amy ( Mainstream , £12.99 ) — A black-tie dinner in a blizzard on the 22,000-foot summit of Peru 's highest and most unpronounceable mountain , where the guests almost die of hypothermia , sets a world record , raises money for charity and gets Charles Darwin 's great-great-grandson on to a Japanese television show for freaks . |
| 9 | Heartwatch co-ordinator Andrew Smart puts the project 's success down to a general increase in awareness of personal health issues . |
| 10 | In Trieste a number of nations converge — Albanian and Yugoslavian , as well as Italian and Venetian ; here the Scandinavians and the Calvinists and the hard Canadian men of the oil lift the city 's atmosphere out of a local milieu . |