Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 2 | As he told little aphorisms from Rumi or the anecdotes of Ferdowsi 's Shah Nama — the Mughal Emperors ' favourite storybook-his gentle voice soothed away the irritations of modern Delhi . |
| 3 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 4 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 5 | After a few minutes ' walk I arrived at the edge of the wooded area ; in front of me was about two hundred yards of grass , rising to the high ground covered by thick gorse and ferns . |
| 6 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 7 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 9 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
| 10 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 11 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 12 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 13 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 14 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 15 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 16 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 17 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 18 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 19 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 20 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 21 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 22 | In this buyers ' guide we cover and comment on the best ( and some we would n't give tank-space to ) and leave the reader to judge . |
| 23 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 24 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 25 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 26 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 27 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 28 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 29 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |
| 30 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |