Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] teacher [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of my Italian teacher 's refugees has been badgering me to find out whether she could get permission to live in England , ’ she said . |
| 2 | For instance , in Chapter Five of this book Hannah records that her piano teacher 's father and her , that is Hannah 's , grandmother were cousins ! |
| 3 | It was no good harking back to the days of coming top in exams , the days of her violin teacher 's delight in her , his saying that really he would n't be surprised if she was good enough for Brussels or Prague . |
| 4 | This was perhaps best represented by the greatest mathematician of the period , Georg Bernhard Riemann ( 1826–66 ) , whose university teacher 's thesis of 1854 ‘ On the hypotheses which underlie geometry ’ ( published 1868 ) can no more be omitted from a discussion of nineteenth-century science than Newton 's Principia can from that of the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |