Example sentences of "a [noun] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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1 | It is only necessary to behold thus the least phenomenon , however familiar , from a point a hair 's breadth aside from our habitual path a routine , to be overcome , enchanted by its beauty and significance . |
2 | After a moment a man 's voice said in Italian : |
3 | Oh no that did n't , and cos they got a good job , I mean five pound seven and six a week a skipper 's earnings . |
4 | Of the more than ten million bound editions that bear his name as editor or author , he was proudest of the fortnightly Harmsworth 's Universal Encyclopedia ( 1920–2 ) which , under the slogan of ‘ a penny a day 's subscription ’ , sold twelve million copies throughout the English-speaking world and was translated into six languages , including Japanese . |
5 | Examples : Consider the following : a painting of a giant a sailor 's personal log a letter to a friend left behind after a move . |
6 | ‘ You taught me that without a man a woman 's life is bleak , empty , and dangerous ; you taught me that a woman is n't complete without a man . |
7 | Well it was quite a change for my mother from being a dressmaker to being a a well a smallholder 's wife . |
8 | She and husband Tom have bought a villa a stone 's throw from the BBC 's Spanish soap set — so they can get away from tourists at home ! |
9 | In such a way a child 's promptness might save a soul from the long blankness of Limbo , or a child 's inattention or failure of nerve condemn it to years of the deadliest waiting until the day of Judgement , held still in the amber of the centuries . |