Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular interest is the series of photographs specially taken in a modern glass-maker 's studio , which reconstruct step-by-step a variety of ancient techniques . |
| 2 | These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street . |
| 3 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 4 | A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things . |
| 5 | The man was stooped over the sign in a ragged butler 's outfit with trousers that were too short , exposing his white ankles . |
| 6 | long time does n't it , before anybody did anything A junior doctor held his finger in a stabbed policeman 's neck wound |
| 7 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 8 | The delegates have also been allowed , for the first time in a communist party 's history since Stalin , to set up factions . |
| 9 | One of the distractions on offer over the weekend was a ride in a tall person 's car — a 20ft limo belonging to a visiting German tall person — 6ft9in . |
| 10 | On one of Lucky Town ‘ s best songs , Better Days , he has the wit to sing : ‘ It 's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending / a rich man in a poor man 's shirt . ’ |
| 11 | It is a small animal in a bigger animal 's home terrain . |
| 12 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
| 13 | He felt slightly awkward , as though he were in a strange woman 's room . |
| 14 | The amount provided in the original cash float is deducted and placed in a separate banker 's bag . |
| 15 | Increasingly , it has been necessary to think in terms of creating our own learning environment in a separate Women 's Education Centre in which men as students , teachers or visiting authorities are unwelcome and in which women act independently for themselves . |
| 16 | Roger Daltrey , all Shirley Temple curls and inflated biceps , swung his microphone dutifully and John Entwistle , in a tatty spiv 's blouson and shock of white hair , stood characteristically immobile , but it was Townshend who looked most chirpy . |
| 17 | In this situation , an initiating member receives a request from a client in his country who has already identified an acquisition target in a participating member 's jurisdiction and , indeed , may already have commenced the acquisition process . |
| 18 | The manager leaned against the wall , arms folded , ankles crossed , in a typical hotelier 's pose , and enjoyed his sensation . |
| 19 | Young Area Sneaker was the faithful companion of ‘ Chokee Bill ’ , himself a prototypical comic-strip crook with swag-bag and cosh , and in their weekly scrapes with the law — personified for Comic Cuts readers in the ineffectual shape of ‘ Fairyfoot the Fat Cop ’ — he was quite recognisably dressed in a budding Hooligan 's attire : bell-bottoms , flowing neck-scarf , cap set at a jaunty angle , and boots two sizes too big . |
| 20 | In the same way that the latter introduces , almost unconsciously , knowledge of the origin of words and the structure of a sentence , so playing on damp or drying pitches fills the gaps in a developing batsman 's technique . |
| 21 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 22 | Distractions , distractions , squirt chilli juice in a wounded elephant 's eye … |
| 23 | Needles were stored in a two-pound Robertson 's jam jar ; and in a long glass-topped case was a selection of knives , scalpels , forceps , scissors and syringes . |
| 24 | Once in a dirty butcher 's shop in Hackney and once in another scene of butchery . |
| 25 | Again we took dinner in a cheap workmen 's restaurant . |
| 26 | The virus lives at body heat — 37°C. — and can be reared in a fertile hen 's egg . |
| 27 | In antenatal diagnosis much effort is directed towards methods of analysing those few fetal cells found circulating in a pregnant woman 's peripheral blood . |
| 28 | And this Monday Irene finally learned , in a Irish Coroner 's Court , exactly how Donald died . |
| 29 | Although school has an important part to play in a young child 's total development , the tensions of life beyond the classroom are likely to be the ones which determine educational failure or educational success . |
| 30 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |