Example sentences of "[noun sg] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 2 | I employ the term ' sharing' in a technical sense to distinguish it from ‘ reciprocity ’ as a specific type of transaction . |
| 3 | An almost universal game was ‘ Soldiers ’ played with a stalk of plantain : [ ‘ Let's play soldier ' s ’ ] was the usual invitation to play . |
| 4 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 5 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 6 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 7 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 8 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 9 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 10 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 11 | In April 1477 the duke 's feoffees granted the countess ' manor of Fowlmere ( Cambs. ) to Queens ' College , Cambridge , for prayers for the good estate of the king and queen and of Gloucester , his wife and son , and for the souls of John de Vere late earl of Oxford and Elizabeth his consort . |
| 12 | In April 1477 the duke 's feoffees granted the countess ' manor of Fowlmere ( Cambs. ) to Queens ' College , Cambridge , for prayers for the good estate of the king and queen and of Gloucester , his wife and son , and for the souls of John de Vere late earl of Oxford and Elizabeth his consort . |
| 13 | The countess ' heir , the attainted thirteenth earl , had the transaction annulled after his restoration by Henry VII and later brought witnesses to depose that the countess had submitted under duress . |
| 14 | The countess ' heir , the attainted thirteenth earl , had the transaction annulled after his restoration by Henry VII and later brought witnesses to depose that the countess had submitted under duress . |
| 15 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 16 | It 's quite nice to know in an emergency , if there 's a phone ringing , say in your boss ' boss ' office , or , you know , in a colleague 's colleague 's office , or something like that , that you want to answer , you do n't want to let ring and ring and ring , and you know the extension number quite well , then use it . |
| 17 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 18 | It 's quite nice to know in an emergency , if there 's a phone ringing , say in your boss ' boss ' office , or , you know , in a colleague 's colleague 's office , or something like that , that you want to answer , you do n't want to let ring and ring and ring , and you know the extension number quite well , then use it . |
| 19 | Jack Nicholson follows 1987 's Ironweed , his last substantial acting job to date , with another William Kennedy Depression-era novel , Billy Phelan 's Greatest Game , playing a ‘ tarnished pool hustler ’ involved in the kidnapping of a city boss ' son , while Mickey Rourke may play Kennedy 's gangster hero Legs for Ironweed producer Gene Kirkwood . |
| 20 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 21 | Once again it must be emphasised that creative play with these materials is tremendously important , and though mathematical experience may be an integral part of that activity , the child ' s creative urge should never be sacrificed . |
| 22 | The innovative work of the Department of Design caught the Princess ' eye — in particular , the model by graduate Elaine Mossman of a an integrated postal service machine or Mailing Access Point and the Satellite Guided Grass Mower designed by 1991 graduate Alan Kitchen . |
| 23 | or of the Princess ' joke |
| 24 | Royal watchers say the Princess ' interest in the leprosy mission was inspired by Mother Teresa , whom she greatly admires . |
| 25 | Her patronage of Bruce Oldfield notwithstanding , the Princess ' instinct for clothes , once freed from the stultifying dullness of her ultra-yah family , has proved to be more High Street than haute couture ; witness the acres of Di-wear replication in major chain stores and at weddings and company dances the length and width of the land ( and in Australia and the United States too where she is a considerable star ) . |
| 26 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 27 | The princess ' poppy attracts a pupil at a British school in Seoul |
| 28 | And if , which certainly appears to be the case from the changes being made for 1993 , the ATP is not very interested in them either , then the LTA should look after it 's own and British tennis ' interests first . |
| 29 | a ) We need to characterise a process ' behaviour as a communicating agent . |
| 30 | The normal form will characterise the first step of a process ' behaviour using the highest levels of syntax , and rely on inner levels to deal with subsequent steps . |