Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's the last thing to go through a fly 's mind when it hits the front of your car ? |
| 2 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 3 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 4 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 5 | A whole fish in a rich sweet-and-sour sauce came as a relief to those of us who knew that fish tends to come near a banquet 's close . |
| 6 | What can you say about a club which apparently could not afford to stay in hotel accommodation but had no problem finding 5,000 dollars to slip into a referee 's back pocket ? |
| 7 | Some playing positions are prone to collide with a Floyd 's fine tuning system and this one seems to be especially sensitive . |
| 8 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 9 | Rosellina was on her way to Rimini , to work in a children 's village set up for orphans and children who had become separated from their families . |
| 10 | To come to a queen 's palace . |
| 11 | But schools now inevitably become more tense about a failing teacher or a teacher with personal problems or problems of health who may not be able to concentrate on a pupil 's assessable skills . |
| 12 | I am troubled by the thought that this familiar world into which I am able to slip without a moment 's readjustment , is a vanishing world . |
| 13 | Donald was about the nearest he was likely to find to a Murderer 's Doctor . |
| 14 | If ever the Royal Warrant were to appear on a headhunter 's letterhead , it would be Spencer Stuart 's , except that they would be too modest and discreet to make it public knowledge . |
| 15 | Theirs are the more menial chores in Hell — the fetching and carrying of water , for instance — and their reward is to suckle at a witch 's nipples . |
| 16 | Because of the nature of the furnishings in a dining room ( a large , flat surface , empty walls ) and because it is needed to serve its purpose only at regular , specified times during the day ( meal times ) , it is an ideal room to serve as a collector 's library . |
| 17 | When Merrill did n't speak he said shortly , ‘ Of course , far be it from me to pry into a client 's financial arrangements , but it struck Bob as rather strange . |
| 18 | He left Uppingham in 1937 , following rheumatic fever , to serve with a Lloyd 's underwriting firm . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a large carrot to dangle before a terrorist 's nose . |
| 20 | It is the basis for a range of ocean-going ferries and cargo vessels that Japanese shipbuilders hope to sell in a decade 's time . |
| 21 | Also if a civil servant fails to answer to a committee 's satisfaction , the government accept that the appropriate minister should be prepared to come before the committee . |
| 22 | I 've just wasted ten minutes trying to listen to a man 's chest . |
| 23 | At first sight this might all look very technical , but it is really fairly simple , and an understanding of the theory of how a board works will help you to progress beyond a beginner 's level . |
| 24 | That 's a relief — you were beginning to sound like a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 25 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 26 | If you really want to know I 'm going to look through a corpse 's personal effects . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd have to comb through a year 's issues of about thirty different railway magazines to be — ’ |
| 28 | Paraded in my immaculate " dhobied " drill I presented myself to my commanding officer who glared at me , and dismissed me with these words : " I am astonished that you have the gall , Mahaddie , to apply for a pilot 's course … if anyone is foolish enough to ever recommend you , you would only kill yourself , and probably others , Good day ! " |
| 29 | And I have a sister-in-law who used to play for a women 's football team so she 's very interested and a as soon as there 's a big game on , on the satellite they all come round and it 's sort of into the kitchen you can make the the half time |
| 30 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |