Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his brother 's flat in Kemp Town , Ron Barton , who had filed his copy in the small hours — ‘ Wife 's greeting sends Tories packing ’ — had fried himself a pig 's kidney , and was greedily rereading his copy . |
| 2 | They send you a Burton 's voucher to the value of whatever you 're looking for , be it ten quid or f and you go in there and you buy a suit you know and everybody 's happy . |
| 3 | Then we 'll pick 500 forms out of the bag and send you a month 's supply of Elancyl MP24 or an Active Toning Kit and a second survey which we will need you to fill in and return to us . |
| 4 | A woman may know what a man 's intentions are towards her , long before he does himself , and can ‘ pick up ’ emotional inclinations which he has not yet recognized . |
| 5 | ‘ 1 mean , how could he know what a woman 's prerogative is ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have fined myself a week 's wages and will be giving the money to charity . ’ |
| 7 | An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic . |
| 8 | They wo n't give me a minute 's peace tomorrow now that you 've been to the centre . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll give you a month 's extra salary if you 've managed to suss that one out . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll give you a Giant 's Affair . " |
| 11 | When the defence requested more time to prepare their case , Jeffries raged , ‘ I will not give him a minute 's time more to save his life ’ . |
| 12 | COPING AWARD : A local supermarket will give him a month 's trial as a shelf-filler . |
| 13 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 14 | A month ago I did n't give him a dog 's chance , but a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to X-ray . ’ |
| 15 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 16 | Aye , I 'll send him a solicitor 's letter that bloody |
| 17 | And I did n't give it a moment 's real consideration . |
| 18 | During all those thousands of hard miles , on wet and dry roads , mountain passes and leafy lanes , it never gave anyone who drove it a second 's cause for concern . |
| 19 | But you have made it a robbers ' cave ( Mark 11:17 ) . |
| 20 | He says yes if you 're paying me a week 's wages and I says I ca n't do that . |
| 21 | Give me a goddess 's work to do ; and I will do it . |
| 22 | ‘ Give me a McDonald 's , ’ said Camille . |
| 23 | Give me a moment 's peace . ’ |
| 24 | Rincewind allowed himself a moment 's sadness . |
| 25 | Forester allowed himself a novelist 's licence in The Hornblower Companion , where admirably executed maps with concise accompanying comment helped to establish the factual background of his stones . |
| 26 | ‘ You would have heard officially on Monday but I thought why not tell you now and save you a week-end 's worry . |
| 27 | Meredith allowed herself a moment 's speculation about this never-discussed time in Markby 's life . |
| 28 | She handed him a Lyle 's Price Guide , open at the right page : ‘ It 's three years out of date but look at the prices . ’ |
| 29 | Horatia leads him a dog 's life . |
| 30 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |