Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 2 | They did a crafty one — one came out and a woman came in , very nice , telling him he had to face up to his responsibilities , she said she 'd help us , they 'd get him a job , they 'd pay his rent and he had to move in with me for a month 's trial . |
| 3 | I remember many years ago , we had friends who had a fishing boat , er herring drifter , and in Fraserburgh the there 's a young lad going out with them for a night 's fishing and it was a beautiful summer 's night ! |
| 4 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 5 | So when someone in a child 's life dies they are often told fabricated versions of what has happened . |
| 6 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 7 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 8 | ‘ It reminded me of a friend 's hand . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You have deprived me of a father 's love , ’ she said , peering closely at her toes . |
| 10 | It is not only advantageous for us to know which of a horse 's emotions are destructive to us having a good working relationship with it ; but ideally , if we also consider horse will do more for us and give us greater pleasure . |
| 11 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 12 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 13 | He 'll find himself on a brain-shrinker 's couch or in the bin if he does n't get a hold of himself . " |
| 14 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 15 | Then , ducking his head under , he tried to free Gomez 's legs but the line was in and out of them like a cat 's cradle . |
| 16 | The dress curved over her breasts lightly , cupping them like a man 's hands . |
| 17 | But remember that no label will ever tell you about a company 's overall ethical policies . |
| 18 | ‘ Whether a patient 's life is valuable or not is none of a doctor 's business , ’ James Munby QC for the Official Solicitor told them . |
| 19 | And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig 's tail , |
| 20 | I shall be a whore , and leave you with a whore 's kiss . ’ |
| 21 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |
| 22 | For that reason , it is worth thinking about what is interesting about you from a journalist 's point of view before trying to woo him or her with your beautiful noise . |
| 23 | ‘ Fenella can follow you in a day 's time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , Mother , we 'll see you in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 25 | Er , perhaps , er , something like that is gon na happen to you in a fortnight 's time , this Christmas . |
| 26 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll see you in a week 's time , so I will . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll see you in a week 's time , Nick ? ’ |
| 29 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 30 | ‘ The manufacture which forces itself upon a stranger 's eye is that of knit-stockings , on which the women of the lower class are visibly employed . ’ |