Example sentences of "a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | By combining a fuller investigation of a text 's history with an awareness of new theoretical investigations into the structures of both culture and discourse , New Historicism has directly confronted the problem of how literature ‘ says something of something and says it to somebody ’ ( to recall Geertz 's formulation ) . |
| 2 | What it is important to recognise here is that a text 's negotiation with the time of its historical production is a complex operation . |
| 3 | What I wish to indicate here is that a new emphasis on a text 's negotiation with history does not allow us to reduce literary texts to the status of documents , writing which only exemplifies the preoccupations of certain periods past and present . |
| 4 | I mean Halloween is it 's a pagan ritual it 's there to worship the devil it 's the most poignant date in the calendar if you want to get into black magic if you want to dance naked round er a sheep 's heart with sticks stuck through it . |
| 5 | Entre la vie et la mort ( 1968 ) depicts the drama of a writer 's struggle with language and the processes of creation , aware as he is of the potentially enslaving power of words . |
| 6 | It provides a LDC 's importer with credit , as he pays the bills only on their due dates when they are presented for settlement at his bank . |
| 7 | Phil Bennett 's overall for a Lions ' scorer with his 18 points and equalled another record . |
| 8 | He would write in the garden , steeping out from the verandah at the back of the house ( ‘ my Riviera ’ ) and hurrying past the flowers and trees to a small revolving hut , like a monk 's cell with its desk and chair and bunk . |
| 9 | On Saturday there will be a Photographer 's Evening with suitably arranged exhibits and locos in steam to provide some atmosphere of the appropriate kind . |
| 10 | Table 7.2 shows that there is an association between the level of a housewife 's identification with the housewife role and the degree to which she specifies standards and routines for housework performance . |
| 11 | After a Ploughman 's lunch with his wife Pandora and 4 children , he drove his Renault Espace van back up the lane to their luxury home in Hailey village , saying nothing about his financial situation . |
| 12 | That is why commercial organisations are avoided if at all possible since it is quite unrealistic to expect a manufacturer to comment critically on his own product or not to view a rival 's product with a jaundiced eye . |
| 13 | In the same way , a horse 's communication with us will be influenced by the knowledge that it has acquired from other horses ; sometimes to its advantage and sometimes not . |
| 14 | Some years ago there was a vet , who besides always smelling of methylated spirits , would always conscientiously swab a horse 's neck with meths before giving an injection . |
| 15 | A homebody 's disgust with the restless owners of fast cars , a temperate man 's contempt for drinkers were impacted into this begrudged advice . |
| 16 | But there had been a full moon last night , a bomber 's moon with all London laid out clearly for the Luftwaffe pilots . |
| 17 | In particular the vendor should seek assurances that the current shareholders have waived any rights of first call they have on the new shares and , if necessary , are prepared to enter into a shareholder 's agreement with the vendor . |
| 18 | It is true that his average support score during his presidency was 76 per cent ( Johnson 's was 83 per cent , and no figures are available for Roosevelt ) , but such scores are of only limited value as a measure of a president 's relationship with the legislature . |
| 19 | A journalist 's wife with one child paints a different picture altogether . |
| 20 | You were half-way to being a lady 's maid with these private patients and if they wanted you to paint their fingernails while they told you their life histories you could n't choose but obey . |
| 21 | Two men were building a warden 's post with sandbags by a shop selling corsets and combinations . |
| 22 | One popular technique is to measure a child 's ability with respect to a number of relatively discrete aspects of language and then to target specific areas for intervention . |
| 23 | Similarly , contextual support and existing levels of shared understanding about routines mean that the adult is well placed to endow a child 's utterance with meanings which extend or elaborate on those expressed . |
| 24 | Hanns Ebensten designed the scenery and costumes for the original production of Morceaux enfantins ; his backcloth imaginatively showed a page from a child 's copybook with rows of carefully copied letters . |
| 25 | I want to know if any of your readers can help me with a child 's pattern with a yoke . |
| 26 | A child 's fascination with a piece of Roman pottery . |
| 27 | A child 's fascination with a piece of Roman pottery . |
| 28 | Brighten up a child 's room with one of these near-fluorescent carpet designs from the Prime Movers collection by Tomkinson Carpets . |
| 29 | Jacques 's inventory after death , an extensive document of 69 pages , lists his musical instruments kept ‘ in another cabinet right next to the alcove , which were essentially the ones inventoried among the contents of Martin 's bedroom ( ‘ a basse de viole , a viole , a pardessus de viole , a violon by Pierres in its case , a child 's violin with a bow , a monocorus , a théorbe and a musette , priced at 100 livres ’ ) . |
| 30 | The painting showed a child 's face with a teardrop falling like a pearl from its cheek , an ecstasy of agony , a secular martyr . |