Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 's [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Made of birchwood they were — this wood 's mostly oak and birch giving way to conifers as we come out , with a view of the foothills . ’ |
| 2 | Before his death at the age of 25 , he had won the Victoria Cross and become the British army 's youngest-ever brigadier general . |
| 3 | My prototype reminds me too much of a kingsize white plastic bucket , and I suspect that a combination of this summer 's largely ozone layer-free sun and a winter frost or two might render it brittle . |
| 4 | The black powder 's just sort of gone to a a sludgy paste . |
| 5 | The Northumbrian club 's best-ever performance was 16th in 1973 , but with the Hudspith brothers , Mark and Ian , as well as the fast-improving Ian Archbold , in their line-up they should easily beat that . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's good to taste the real thing for once ; that vodka 's mostly water by now . ’ |
| 7 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 8 | That yin 's awfully bonnie — whit dae you think ? ’ |
| 9 | unless the local printer 's very cleaver somehow and got that advertising to sponsor er the booklet they 've had to charge for it . |