Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other critics shared his view that enough was enough and gave both Marilyn French 's The War Against Women and Susan Faludi 's Backlash a pretty cool reception . |
| 2 | Then Wally Watmough had called Frankie 's mam a gypsy-woman and his dad a little black man , and the smaller boy , enraged , had attacked him without thought for the consequences . |
| 3 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 4 | Two figure compositions by Stanley Spencer made satisfactory money although the results will have disappointed those dealers who were pushing Spencer 's market a couple of seasons ago . |
| 5 | Rolan Adams 's murder a year ago led to the speedy identification and prosecution of the attackers and the murderer subse-quently received a life sentence . |
| 6 | In the middle of Reverend Barr 's address a woman Maggie did n't recognize completely broke down and had to be led away . |
| 7 | Some weeks after Brezhnev 's initiative a Soviet statement quite explicitly linked it with the new American ’ arc of crisis ‘ strategy . ’ |
| 8 | A few weeks later and quite unrelated to David 's experience a group of children from a neighbouring village made their way over the fields for a walk with their dogs . |
| 9 | And his first goal tends to get forgotten … but it was 100 times better than Cuntona 's effort a few weeks back , and better than Peles effort … in fact probably the best goal of that type ( 45 yard lobs ) youll ever see . |
| 10 | But the possibilities of domestic tension were increased by Warnie 's presence a hundredfold . |
| 11 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 12 | He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care . |
| 13 | Ian gave Sue 's hair a good trim before shampooing with Natural Styling Perm Hair Bath . |
| 14 | In Edward 's day a cursus honorum similar to the German was firmly established . |
| 15 | ‘ I enjoyed Kylie 's company a lot . |
| 16 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 17 | This would have had the effect of endowing York with metropolitan status as Pope Gregory the Great had originally intended and it is likely that Eadwine , on Bede 's testimony a thoughtful and sagacious individual ( HE 11 , 9 ) , appreciated the significance of this development . |
| 18 | After Courtney 's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women . |
| 19 | Both authors are rather weak on attributions and the role of assistants in Piero 's workshop a problem that also needs further investigation . |
| 20 | Drop on Ann Richard 's tomb a tear ; |
| 21 | Several states maintain Soviet military advisers on their soil , in Syria 's case a substantial number . |
| 22 | To give Kukkay 's hair a more voluminous look , Chris used a Wella Optaform permanent wave on Molton Brown permers . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , leave me alone with your silly talk , ca n't you ! ’ said Gloria , then softened and gave Dot 's cheek a gentle pinch . |
| 24 | As we reported in this space in January , World Cup broadcast managers TSL did the United States ' game a disservice by making a deal with a network which showed the World Cup final almost four months after it was played . |
| 25 | He knelt down and held it in front of Sung 's face a moment . |
| 26 | She had long legs and a mane of blonde hair ; as she laboured at her typewriter on classified memoranda she drew into North 's office a little stream of besotted admirers , and she was to be spotted after the scandal broke driving round Washington in her red sports car ( FAWN 1 ) , blowing smoke out of the windows . |
| 27 | In the year before Gould 's arrival a thousand albatrosses were killed on Albatross Island alone . |
| 28 | So Katie Jane from Daisy Chainsaw has plasters on her newly-shaven head from where she collided with Crispin Gray 's guitar a couple of nights earlier . |
| 29 | He was assuming that the slice had come from Miss Tuckey 's kitchen a makeshift to arm ‘ Praeger ’ while the others went to get a van or just new instructions since they would n't have planned on removing a body . |
| 30 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |