Example sentences of "[n mass] 's [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eric Partridge 's Dictionary of Catch Phrases , the phrase ‘ over the left shoulder ! ’ negates ‘ one 's own or another 's statement and indicates derisive disbelief , the thumb being sometimes pointed over that shoulder … |
| 2 | A night fighting variant , the Firefly NF.II , was developed in which an 18° extension was incorporated aft of the engine firewall to compensate for an alteration in the aircraft 's centre of gravity . |
| 3 | Mm quite a few bob 's worth of booze there . |
| 4 | Thus what the emerging national data seem to confirm is the Leeds data 's sense of a pervasive incongruence in classroom strategies between pedagogic style and mode of organization . |
| 5 | Li Yuan 's look of surprise as the Arab reared brought gasps as well as laughter from all round . |
| 6 | Erm , th that 's easy , it does n't expend any , any energy and er , from the offspring 's point of view that 's worth facing . |
| 7 | We 've described it from the offspring 's point of view . |
| 8 | After beating him , they ransacked the house , but could only find £10 's worth of coins . |
| 9 | Dorset gentry were irritated at Dorchester folk 's disregard of their social superiors ; national politics brought disaster . |
| 10 | I never got to hear Arthur Calder-Marshall talking about Patrick Hamilton , but just a few days later I was able to read Patrick Hamilton about Arthur Calder-Marshall , in a letter to Hamilton 's brother in 1951 about a radio talk Calder-Marshall had given : ‘ Arthur C-M 's description of me as he first knew me ( at the Wells Hotel , Hampstead ) makes very amusing reading . |
| 11 | The fish 's sense of smell is most acute . |
| 12 | The fish 's method of receiving sound through their bodies , amplified in some instances by the resonance of the gas-filled swim-bladder , does not work efficiently in air , so most frogs and toads have developed eardrums . |
| 13 | Skynner says the question he is most frequently asked is whether therapy has not dampened Cleese 's power of comic invention : is a happier Cleese not a duller one ? |
| 14 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 15 | Instead the myths developed , and the media 's idea of ‘ a Militant ’ became a youth in a shell suit who had two heads and ate babies . |
| 16 | Er w I think there 's a there 's a desperately boring feature about the present political circumstances from the media 's point of view . |
| 17 | Back on vinyl following a two-year bout of writer 's block , he 's surprised and depressed to find the media 's image of him as rock 's Mr Glum has survived , in spite of the exhilarating content of the new LP , These Immortal Souls ' ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' . |
| 18 | That is , the sexual conduct of women not present at the trial is dragged into the media 's version of the event , the better to titillate the reader . |
| 19 | In Britain , the media 's version of the story of the World Cup traditionally stages the Finals through a grand dualism , broadly organising the major footballing powers in two camps — the Latins and the Europeans . |
| 20 | But while the British media 's account of World Cup preparations in Italy has been dominated by the prospect of violence , British domestic youth culture has primed itself for other possibilities by looking to the Latin-influenced culture of spectatorship and style . |
| 21 | Between us we 'd get about 200 quid 's worth of goods , like , jeans , tops , kids ' clothes . |
| 22 | But it 's it 's really a good quid 's worth of l of er knowledge . |
| 23 | ‘ Twenty million quid 's worth of coke , ’ Hitch said . |
| 24 | Well I get twenty five quid 's worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers I shall buy Stuart a shirt , I 'll give it for something for Christmas , wo n't it ? |
| 25 | I 've ten quid 's worth of fifty pieces that 's all I could get . |
| 26 | About forty quid 's worth of empty cases . |
| 27 | So that 's gon na ma that 's gon na be about three quid 's worth of matches . |
| 28 | I thought why spend it all on chocolate because usually I buy about six or seven quid 's worth of eggs , a mixture of eggs |
| 29 | God 's lonely man Travis Bickle ( De Niro ) in Scorsese 's vision of urban America as purgatory , Taxi Driver |
| 30 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |