Example sentences of "an [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an hour-and-a-half 's drive away . |
| 2 | Black as an Ethiopian 's armpit . ’ |
| 3 | which becomes an anti-Lord 's Prayer , addressed to an unnamed hearer who may be the god of a universe of barrenness and death . |
| 4 | That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer . |
| 5 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 6 | The Vung Tau Cargo , snagged in a Vietnamese fisherman 's nets , looks like being a repeat of the astonishing success of the Nanking Cargo — 150,000 pieces of mid-18th-century porcelain plus 126 gold bars — salvaged by an ex-Barnardo 's boy , Michael Hatcher , and auctioned in 1986 . |
| 7 | ( f ) She proclaimed herself to the staff nurse to be an ex-Jehovah 's Witness and the notes were recorded accordingly . |