Example sentences of "to a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're going to a friend 's for a barbecue on a hot summer 's evening , and you 're walking up the drive and you can smell the barbecue sizzling away . |
| 2 | I do n't know , cos she 's going to a friend 's for . |
| 3 | We took it round to a friend 's , did n't we ? |
| 4 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 5 | to use , at least experimentally , as keys to a composer 's , and a time 's , expressive intentions . |
| 6 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 7 | Europe , of course , is something of a captive market ; not only is ESA funded by 13 European member-states but ESA 's procurement policy has been to award contracts in proportion to a country 's given contribution to its budget . |
| 8 | But it is not relevant to a thing 's having the position it has ; it does not mean , for example , that to have the position it has , a thing must be aware of how it stands in relation to something else . |
| 9 | Let us not dwell on the early inhabitants of the Abbey for that would run to a Who 's Who of our heritage . |
| 10 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 11 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 12 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 13 | Additionally , if the idea is extremely complex or tangential to a manager 's assigned work , he may simply not know what to do with it . |
| 14 | Thus they considered it an affront to a man 's dignity — but not to a woman 's — to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits . |