Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone with an elephant 's memory who might be about to finger Mills once and for all . ’ |
| 2 | So when someone in a child 's life dies they are often told fabricated versions of what has happened . |
| 3 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 4 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether a patient 's life is valuable or not is none of a doctor 's business , ’ James Munby QC for the Official Solicitor told them . |
| 6 | Ferrets must become used to wearing a muzzle long before they are fitted with one for a day 's ferreting . |
| 7 | Something about a farmer 's wife ? |
| 8 | ‘ You , Constable , said something about a conjuror 's patter . ’ |
| 9 | At a Panel Hearing , the three panel members selected from a pool of serving members , one acting as chairman of the session , consider everything about a child 's life . |
| 10 | Everything about a musician 's life concerns money . |
| 11 | The matrix therefore represents the cross references between what is seen and the constructs that come to be applied in making sense of the experience and , by recording these , it is able to illuminate something of a person 's way of thinking and responding . |
| 12 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 13 | To some extent advertising was something of a gentleman 's game . |
| 14 | Without a real , head-knocking manager of his programme , the administration continues to live in something of a fool 's paradise . |
| 15 | He and his wife were about to undertake a trip to America and Australia , which in the event developed into something of a busman 's holiday as he was persuaded , perhaps not against his will , to address numerous meetings of trade unionists on the West Coast of the United States and elsewhere . |
| 16 | The sheer number of sets required per week made this story something of a Designer 's nightmare for Raymond Cusick . |
| 17 | This is called ‘ snowflake ’ obsidian , and is something of a collector 's item . |
| 18 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 19 | All this I learn from the official match programme , price sixpence and now something of a collector 's item . |
| 20 | Which , from a man who had fought a hook for a goodly part of his life , was something of a collector 's item . |
| 21 | We need to know something of an animal 's mind . |
| 22 | The passage cost £6 , or something like a year 's wages and for repayment the indenture might run from four to seven years — though they would , of course , have to be fed and clothed in that period . |
| 23 | And then y when you came into the stockyard with a Caw , Caw , li like a a crow saying it was just something like a crow 's nest . |
| 24 | In the dream there 's always this room , something like a gardener 's hut or a potting-shed . |
| 25 | I 've seen myself take something like a rabbit 's foot into an interview , ’ says Mr Strouthos . |
| 26 | Mr Graham would always take the view that this ‘ dignity ’ was something like a woman 's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it . |
| 27 | The example cited is something like a dentist 's surgery where the system has to cope with payroll , patient records , appointments and the like . |
| 28 | It was true , as Tim had said , that the nearest keeper 's cottage was something like an hour 's hard tramp by footpath across the park and through the woods — but there was a short cut , if Mary dared take it . |
| 29 | ‘ The idea of stuffing everything into a pig 's stomach put me right off . ’ |
| 30 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |