Example sentences of "[noun sg] with a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top of this silent instrument sit photographs : toddlers perched in pony carts ; young men in the uniforms of various armies , including one doomed corporal with a poet 's face ; skullcapped patriarchs ; brides and grooms . |
| 2 | Twenty years old as she was , Ella had beaten her big sisters to the altar : Alice Maud , the eldest , waited a further two years before marrying Frank Foote , a clerk in Godsell 's Brewery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , in which town she herself had served an apprenticeship with a ladies ' hairdresser in High Street . |
| 3 | She stood in the doorway with a man 's night-shirt on and her hair in a plait . |
| 4 | Beneath it , one of her fantastic beasts , a scorpion with a Medusa 's head . |
| 5 | What this operation can do is to cause havoc with a women 's sexuality , often provoking the very opposite to what was intended . |
| 6 | It also needs a second additive to help it dissolve and raises the vapour pressure of petrol , which can cause havoc with a car 's Fuel pumping system . |
| 7 | The noxious substance contained in the two anal glands , one on either side of the animal 's rectum , is called butyl mercaptan and it plays havoc with a predator 's face . |
| 8 | Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children 's zoo . |
| 9 | A classic instance of this is ‘ The Head-Ach ’ , in which she humorously compares her own writing of poetry with a friend 's gossip . |
| 10 | We were taken hunting with a Harris 's hawk . |
| 11 | Examples are given of the working documents which should emerge from this process , in keeping with a school 's priority . |
| 12 | Bec , the girl with a badger 's furry snout and soft dark eyes , showed her the great sculleries where they all took turns to prepare the food . |
| 13 | Seen a high court judge with a butcher 's slab ? |
| 14 | Why did she let herself feel so safe with him , when to him she was nothing more than a hot-tempered child with a woman 's body ? |
| 15 | Some are arrayed in purple ; some charm with a virgin 's white ; others are dashed with crimson , while others are robed in scarlet . |
| 16 | However , if an agent is enjoying the wine with a Bryan Adams , he or she may be drinking the vinegar with a manager 's smaller act who makes much more work than the bigger act , with absolutely no income . |
| 17 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 18 | By day the grey alpaca coat , left behind by Twomey , covered him like a night-shirt ; the turned-back sleeves often fell over his hands to hang for a moment with a pierrot 's sadness . |
| 19 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 20 | On the head they wore a hard hat with a high crown , or a billy cock with a pheasant 's or woodcock 's feather tucked into the band at the side . |
| 21 | We sawed off the point with a neighbour 's hacksaw , then forced a hole through with a knitting needle . |
| 22 | The search for permanence , in our view , could be accomplished in many ways including custodianship , long-term fostering , or even in some circumstances a stay in a residential home or , of course , rehabilitation with a child 's natural family . |
| 23 | There is no doubt in my mind that issues surrounding permanent family placement with a child 's own family are very similar to those which surround permanent family placement in substitute families . |
| 24 | With an elephant 's nose with a crocodile 's tail . |
| 25 | Similarly a private meeting with a person 's current boss can produce startling revelations ! |
| 26 | At that time it was a thriving community with a blacksmith 's shop , bakery , joiner and tailor 's , to name a few . |
| 27 | Originally a Celtic nature-goddess , depicted as a woman astride a mare , or a woman 's torso with a horse 's head . |
| 28 | AFTER a glut of warbird videos on the market comes a welcome change with A Tiger 's Tale , about the Tiger Moth , its designer , and the men and women who fly it . |
| 29 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 30 | A young Abyssinian , returning to camp with a victim 's testicle hanging from his belt , he compared to ‘ a deserving young Etonian who has just got his colours for cricket . ’ |