Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] but [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects they were not deceived by the images of life portrayed in women 's literature but had a very realistic idea of what married life held in store for them . |
| 2 | The brands , owned by the Sheep Dip Whisky Company , are not flavoured by either sheep dip or pig 's nose but have a promising cult following among farmers . |
| 3 | Further , it can be checked against other contemporary annals , whether produced in Charles 's kingdom but giving a perspective very different from the AB 's ( the brief Annals of the monastery of Fontanelle , or St-Wandrille , near modern Le Havre , for instance , have their own house-based story to tell ) , or written in another Carolingian kingdom , like the East Frankish Annals of Fulda which are just as slanted as the AB , but in a different direction . |
| 4 | Each team member not only comments on the group 's performance but circulates a self appraisal answering these kinds of questions : |
| 5 | Like so many men he sneered at women 's intuition but conferred a quasi-biblical authority on his own . |
| 6 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 7 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 8 | A report in The Independent had earlier praised the Party 's progressiveness but pictured a meeting in Fishburn workmen 's club where women seemed to have fallen foul of clubland 's oldest rule . |