Example sentences of "in a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyacinth , who worked as beautician in a hairdresser 's in Arden , was nineteen , big-busted ( ‘ It 's like seeing Fylingdales Early Warning system coming at you ’ ) and handsome . |
| 2 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 3 | Continue this exercise with items in a stationer 's , bakery , ironmonger 's , fish shop and so on . |
| 4 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |
| 5 | In the words of the headmaster , this is a school which is ‘ more interested in a child 's today than his tomorrow — in where the child is now in relation to where he was , rather than in relation to our expectations of where he ought to be ’ . |
| 6 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 7 | In the minor girls ' 800m , Rachel Hall was third in a season 's best of 2–41.6 . |
| 8 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 9 | Danny was living in a children 's home . |
| 10 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
| 11 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 12 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 13 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 14 | Pakenham , born of a Catholic mother and Protestant father in Dublin , spent the first nine years of his life in a children 's home , his mother dying shortly after his birth . |
| 15 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 16 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 17 | A SOCIAL services chief issued an appeal yesterday for the bit-part actress Yasmin Gibson to contact them about the future of her Home Alone daughter , being cared for in a children 's home . |
| 18 | He had been in a children 's home |
| 19 | quite a coincidence your experience of working in a children 's home |
| 20 | Well like living in a dog 's |
| 21 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 22 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
| 23 | People think a lot of money is taken in a bookie 's so they will be a target for thieves . ’ |