Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] ' [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 4 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 8 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 11 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 12 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 18 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
| 21 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 22 | Because of the immediate nature of such patients ' problems it is important that whatever form of help is offered should be available without too much delay , and for this reason health-centre-based therapists may be of particular value , as has been shown in the case of psychologists ( Robson et al. 1984 ) and social workers ( Shepherd et al. 1979 ) . |
| 23 | With all these artists ' patches there are some sounds which are great and others which defy logic . |
| 24 | The Scheme will ensure that all solicitors ' representatives who give police station advice do so to an agreed standard of competence . |
| 25 | This continuity existed among both employers and employees in many cases so that there are many farmers ' sons who also had to ‘ serve their time ’ alongside the hired labour force before taking over the farm and many elderly farm workers who can remember instructing their current employer in the ways of the farm when he was a small boy . |
| 26 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 27 | tragically yes , or all boys ' schools you know here are young men who have had thousands of pounds spent on their education , and when they arrive in an environment like Oxford they somehow seem to be less capable than other young men of behaving with decency towards the students they are being educated with . |
| 28 | The third set of presentation materials could be examples of your own pupils ' work which show how the aims and objectives of history teaching have changed considerably since the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 29 | Encouraged by their interpretations of each others ' dreams they set off against Humbaba to cut down his cedar forests . |
| 30 | In both characters ' lives it was mainly men who had oppressed them , for Phyllisia it was her father who preferred her sister , Ruby . |