Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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1 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
2 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
3 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
6 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
7 | The gleaming black exterior with the polished silver lamp-brackets and the forbidding curtains within that could be drawn to hide its occupants from prying stares told him it was a mourners ' carriage he had spent the night in . |
8 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
9 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
10 | I 've just had a Christmas card from my old healthy friend ; so that 's two years ' service they 've lost for starters . |
11 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
12 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
13 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
14 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
15 | It was n't like that at my hubby 's last Kirk , telling you the Young Mothers ' Meeting we had there was Really Radical . |
16 | It will argue that because of the nature of primary school teachers ' role they have quite specific training requirements and that the current climate of change may well be catalytic . |
17 | As the transfer was not at arms ' length I had to obtain an estimate of the market value of the house and forward this to the Inland Revenue Stamps Office . |