Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you are able to bury your pet in your garden , or even that of a friend 's , the acute sense of loss and separation you feel may be reduced . |
| 2 | Another eyewitness said : ‘ I was in my office when I saw a lot of women coming out of a hairdresser 's with towels over their heads . |
| 3 | While the village unit remained small there was less chance of a decision 's being imposed by the community 's more influential members , and in any case the imposition of status and ranking tended to reduce the passive acceptance of inferiority which might have attended its acquisition through achievement or wealth . |
| 4 | Successful reproduction is obviously the prime objective of a bird 's — indeed any animal 's — life . |
| 5 | He could n't help being reminded of a cat 's tight , shell-pink rectum . |
| 6 | The feet were by the door , small , ill-formed , like wax models of a child 's that had passed through flame and were partially melted . |
| 7 | The fire-light danced merrily on this , and really ( setting all taste but that of a child 's aside ) it gave a richness of colouring to that side of the room . |
| 8 | From its size the experts think your pen was probably part of a child 's set . |
| 9 | However , since the writing system is in many respects a system for representing the sound pattern of speech , a further source of phonological effects is graphology , particularly in the evocation of a character 's , style of speech in dialogue . |
| 10 | Thus was Cu Sith , and he differed from other dogs in having paws that left prints the size of a man 's , and a long tail plaited in a flat braid which lay coiled upon his back . |
| 11 | " And this was a case of a man 's being found on the mud ? " |
| 12 | While such a state most frequently results from the frustration of a person 's expressed desire for some material object , especially food or tobacco , Dentan ( 1968 ) notes that it can also be the result of forcing someone to do something against his or her will . |
| 13 | The customers of a firm 's appointed representative are treated as customers of the firm . |
| 14 | In medicine , we talk in general terms of a patient 's ‘ right to know ’ , but also of a doctor 's liberty , sometimes not to tell a particular patient for good reason . |
| 15 | Discovery of a text 's more specific historical embedment usually finds it confronting issues which are comfortably familiar , if usually unwelcome , to a late twentieth century social and political perspective . |
| 16 | The Yellow Book The London Stock Exchange requires that own-share purchases within any 12-month period of 15 per cent or more of a company 's issued share capital must be made either by way of a partial offer or by way of a tender offer at a stated maximum price . |
| 17 | There would have been no danger of a Wanda 's being mistaken for his niece . |
| 18 | ‘ Two days of a holiday 's enough . |
| 19 | What sort of a game 's that ? |
| 20 | I mean point one of a millimetre 's not much . |
| 21 | Science 's egocentric constricted views in relation to consciousness and mind have reduced the human mental condition almost to that of a robot 's , with ‘ mystic mumbo jumbo ’ being the label placed on the canons of the sublime Eastern ‘ Science of Life ’ . |
| 22 | It also seems to be more of a woman 's forte to keep in touch with what is happening in the future . |
| 23 | This story of a player 's the striker 's move to the top of nation 's goalscoring charts does n't fit the normal footballing script . |
| 24 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |
| 25 | Not that None of a Family 's not what we both want what with our lifestyles . |
| 26 | This was a Monday night and the early show of a week 's run in a tour which would take her round the Eastern States , and hopefully into New York for the spring of 1913 , that is if audiences took to her in this first week . |
| 27 | He could be warmly understanding and sympathetic , as I knew , when dealing with a friend 's problems ; but , for that very reason , a catalogue in mediocre verse of a stranger 's supposed education sentimentale was something he found thoroughly distasteful . |
| 28 | It 's a fact that just one of their rusks provides at least 15 per cent of a baby 's recommended daily intake of vitamins and minerals . |
| 29 | The scrape of a chair 's being drawn out jerked her from her musings , and she looked up quickly . |
| 30 | ( One of the very few to leave for other employment was Emily Picken , who had been offered a post as matron of a children 's home . |