Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim was nominated for the competition by Mrs Eunice Graham , who has won a year 's supply of free milk . |
| 2 | The Copyrights Company , specialist in merchandise licensing , has won a Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 3 | The bulk are sold in the U S A and Oxford recently won a Queen 's Award for export achievement . |
| 4 | But in Nephila and many other spiders , the value of b will be low as once a male has located a female 's web , he stays there . |
| 5 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 6 | Her yellow hair was cut very short , and on it , like a cake frill , perched a nurse 's cap , tied beneath the square jaw . |
| 7 | Ultimately it was Nayim 's audacious away goal that ruled , but only in the closing minutes had the Londoners enjoyed a moment 's respite from the pumped-up Fourth Division team , who had Roy McDonough sent off for a reckless tackle near the end . |
| 8 | This is obviously too short to be considered a day 's walk so if you 're sticking to the low level route you should link straight in to Day 11 by following the road from Elterwater to Grasmere . |
| 9 | Unlike a century ago , no longer is it considered a gentleman 's right to shoot anything he sees , too late to save some of our wildlife species . |
| 10 | We say it 's wrong because football is considered a gentleman 's game . ’ |
| 11 | Cognac is associated with smooth sophisticates , while armagnac is considered a peasant 's tipple . |
| 12 | Failing that you could check out your bank balance and treat yourself to a stay at Champneys health resort which has recently installed a Skier 's Edge and where they gear workouts to your ski-specific needs . |
| 13 | They said that I had torn a policeman 's tunic . |
| 14 | I once saw Bert cry tears when he had rouged a gnat 's cock too much off . |
| 15 | That such a natural loyalist should have met a traitor 's end reflects all Edward II 's failings as a political manager . |
| 16 | On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin 's wedding . |
| 17 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |
| 18 | ‘ Billy Sullivan ai n't done a day 's work since 'e got out o' the army . |
| 19 | By the time he is up in the morning , I have already done a day 's work … |
| 20 | ‘ I bet you 've done a day 's work already . |
| 21 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 22 | in this place who have got up and done a day 's work before they 've come here ! |
| 23 | It 's also done a publisher 's version of reverse engineering with Reed International Plc 's Cahners Publishing subsidiary , that will see Systems Integration Business folded and Reed taking on Digital News and blending it with its own Digital Review . |
| 24 | Some of you have done a prisoner 's dilemma . |
| 25 | Now if you 've done a prisoner 's dilemma you do n't have to come . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've done a week 's supply , John . ’ |
| 27 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 28 | He has now done a Levi 's campaign and a Kylie Minogue video . |
| 29 | ‘ But it was mostly the other thing , that he 'd had to sweat all his life and she 'd never done a hand 's turn . |
| 30 | Never done a hand 's turn in her life , and would n't know how ! ’ |