Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] an [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone with an elephant 's memory who might be about to finger Mills once and for all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Handsome is as handsome does , ’ snapped Matey , who as an ex-children 's nurse had a fund of such sayings . |
| 3 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 4 | We need to know something of an animal 's mind . |
| 5 | It was true , as Tim had said , that the nearest keeper 's cottage was something like an hour 's hard tramp by footpath across the park and through the woods — but there was a short cut , if Mary dared take it . |
| 6 | However , it does not follow from this that there is nothing in an animal 's head , or that nothing useful can be said about it . |
| 7 | Seen in this gallery context it invites us to view it as an individual 's response to a constructed drama . |
| 8 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 9 | My bed is under the window ; you might be sitting on it in an hour 's time . |
| 10 | You do n't know whether he did it from an entrepreneur 's point of view , or from er |
| 11 | Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy 's military forces rather than against cities or factories . |
| 12 | Good interpreters can aid communication but professionals must be trained to use interpreters properly or , ideally , should have fluency themselves in an individual 's native language . |
| 13 | This provides a contrast with many of the English papers which had the occasional question on ‘ Discuss Rossetti's/Dickens's/Browning's representation of women ’ , but never had anything on an author 's representation of men . |